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US History
7.3 Religion and Reform
| Unitarianism | religious movement which denied the Trinity and the deity of Christ |
| transcendentalism | A form of romanticism; a religious movement which taught that man was essentially good. |
| Francis Ashbury | one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States |
| Richard Allen | founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church |
| Second Great Awakening | spiritual revival in the US from 1795 to 1840 |
| Timothy Dwight | American educator, Congregationalist minister, poet, travel writer, and the eighth president of Yale College |
| Charles Finney | the "Father of Modern Revivalism" for pioneering influential techniques during the Second Great Awakening |
| Horace Mann | known as the father of the public school system |
| Noah Webster | an American lexicographer known for his American Spelling Book and his American Dictionary of the English Language |
| Dorothea Dix | played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill. |
| abolition | A reform movement which advocated the elimination of slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a radical abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer, known for promoting emancipation of slaves and his influential anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator |
| Fredrick Douglas | American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 meeting that discussed women's rights, including the right to vote |
| utopia | an ideal society |