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Antebellum America

Cultural and Social movements

TermDefinition
Republican Motherhood idea that women did have a vital role to plau as wives and mothers. Women should educate their children to be virtuous citizens of the new American republic.
Seneca Falls Convention organized by the women's movement and called for women's suffarege, equal educational opportunities, and greater divorce and child custody rights
Dorothea Dix worked to reform the reatment of people with mental and emotional disabilities
Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher preachers that led the Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening a wave of religious enthusiasm that played an important role in making Americans aware of the moral issues posed by slavery
American Colonization Society worked on returning freed slaves to the west cost of Africa
William Lloyd Garrison editor of The Liberator and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society
Frederick Douglass most prominent Black abolitionist during the antebellum period
Transcendentalism a philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life while celebrating the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson transcendentalist writers
Utopian Communities strove to escape the competitiveness of American life, regulate moral behavior, and create cooperative lifestyles
Perfectionism the belief that humans have the capacitu to achieve a better life through conscious acts of will
The Hudson River School America's first coherent school of art, and a group of artists who painted landscapes emphasizing American's natural beauty
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