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APUSH Vocab (11/11)

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Second Great Awakening Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835.
Revivalism Belief in or the promotion of a revival of religious fervor,
Burned over District The western and central regions of New York in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place.
Transcendentalists Theory claiming that there was an ideal, intuitive reality transcending ordinary life.
Ralph W. Emerson An American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Henry David Thoreau An American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism; author of "Civil Disobedience."
Utopian Communities Modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic
Temperance Abstinence from alcoholic drink.
Dorothea Dix A woman who paved the way to the humane treatment of those with psychological disorders. Created the first generation of American mental asylums.
Horace Mann An American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton An American leader in the women’s rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first concerted demand for women’s suffrage in the United States.
Seneca Falls Convention The first women’s rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women’s suffrage movement.
Abolitionism A movement to end the slave trade and set the slaves free.
William Lloyd Garrison An American journalistic crusader who published a newspaper, The Liberator, and helped lead the successful abolitionist campaign against slavery in the United States.
The Liberator An antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison which was notorious for its support of abolition.
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) A gifted, eloquent former slave; statesman, writer, American social reformer, powerful orator; was self-educated; an abolitionist.
American Party/”Know-Nothing" Party A prominent United States political party during the late 1840s and the early 1850s. Its members strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic Church.
German/Irish Immigrants A surge of immigration began during the 1820s; most were German/Irish who were not unwelcomed to everyone because industries needed willing workers.
Manifest Destiny The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Mexican-American War A war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River or the Rio Grande.
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