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antebellum period   before civil war, reform movements, jacksonian era and following decades  
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Second Great Awakening   religious revivals, against rationalism, counterattack against liberal views  
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Timothy Dwight   reverend, pres. of Yale, motivated generation of young men to become evangelical preachers  
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revivalism/ revival camp meetings   NY, emotions and fear in sermons/ dramatic preaching sessions, converted many  
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millenialism   widespread belief that the world was ending in 1844, 2nd coming of christ  
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Church of Latter-day saints, Mormons   religious group practiced polygamy, in the far western frontier  
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Joseph Smith   founder of the mormons, based his ideals off of the Book of Mormon  
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Brigham Young   after original leader was killed by a mob, he led Mormons  
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New Zion   the mormon religious community  
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romantic movement   in art and literature, stressed intuition and feelings  
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transcendentalists   questioned the doctrines of established churches and capitalistic habitss of the merchant class  
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ralph waldo emerson   one of the most popularamerican lecturers, expressed individualism  
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american scholar   by emerson, urged americans for their own culture, not that of the british  
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Henry David thoreau   conducted 2 yr experiment  
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Walden, On Civil Obedience   best known public book of thoreau/ essay about nonviolent protest, not oberying unjust laws, refusing to pay taxes for immoral wars  
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Brook Farm   community of people uner the transcendentalist ordeal  
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George Ripley   1841, protestant minister to achieve a more natural union between intellectual and manual labor  
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feminists   advocates of womens rights  
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Margaret Fuller   feminist, a writer  
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Theodore Parker   theologian and radical reformer  
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utopian communities   ideal communities  
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Shakers   kept women and men strictly apart, forbidden marriage or sexual relations  
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robert owen, new harmony   founder/ utopian socialist community  
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joseph henry noyes   started a cooperative community  
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oneida community   NY, highly controversial, economic equality, shared property  
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charles fourier, phalanxes   french socialist  
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horace greeley   newspaper editor, less competitive society, share work and iving arrangements  
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George Caleb bingham   painter of the common ppl in various settings  
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william s. mount   popular painter for lively rural compositions  
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thomas cole and frederick church   empahsized heroic beauty thru American landscapes  
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Hudson river school   expressed the romantic age's fascination witht eh natural world  
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washington irving & james fenimore cooper   wirters using fiction with american settings  
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thomas gallaudet   founded a shcool for the deaf  
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nathaniel hawthorne   questionsed the intolerance and conformity of American life  
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temperance   movement persuading drinkers to use moderation and abstinency  
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American temperance society   1826, founded by protestant ministers concerned with the high rate of alcohol consumption  
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Washingtonians   another society, argued alcoholism was a disease that required practical, helpful treatment  
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Womens christian temperance union   gave storng support for temperance in the late 1870's  
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asylum movement   reforms for prisons, mental hospitals, and poorhouses  
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Dorothea dix   former schoolteach from mass. dedicate the rest of her life to improving the conditions in insane asylums  
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samuel gridley howe   founded a school for the blind  
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penitentiaries   new prisons in pennsylvania  
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auburn system   NY, enforced rigid rules of discipline with moral instruction programs  
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horace mann   leading advocate of the pulbic school movement  
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public school movement   establishing free public schools for children of all classes  
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Mcguffey readers   extolled the virtues of hardwork, punctuality and sobriety  
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womens rights movement   reform originated from secondary roles and prevention of their participation in issues  
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sarah and angelina grimke   objected to male opposition to their antislavery activities, wrote, "letter on..."  
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Letter on the condition of women and the equality of sexes   1837, protested male opposition to womens antislavery activities  
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Lucretia mott & elizabeth cady stanton   reformers campaigning for womens rights after being barred form speaking at an antislavery convention  
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Seneca Falls convention   1848, leading feminists met, issued Declaration of sentiments, document, modeled after the dec. of independence  
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Susan B Anthony   led campaign for equal voting and property rights for women, with stanton  
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AMerican colonization society   1817, wanted to transport slaves to an african colony  
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american antislavery society   1833, founded by garrison and others  
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abolitionism   anti slavery  
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william lloyd garrison, the liberator   advocate of abolition, published newspaper  
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liberty party   1840, ran James birney, their one campaign was antislavery  
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frederick douglas, the north star   former slave, spoke against slavery, 1847, started the antislavery journal  
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Harriet tubman, sojourner truth, william still   black leaders that helped organize the effort to assist fugitive slaves to escape to free territory in the north  
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David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet   2 northern blacks who adovcated radical solutions, encouraged revolts  
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Nat turner   VA slave, 1831, led a revolt, 55 whites killed  
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American peace society   1828, wanted to abolish war, influenced some to oppose mexican war  
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sylvester graham   made graham crackers which were promoted to improve digestion  
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amelia bloomer   made pantalettes, worn instead of long skirts  
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