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| Second Great Awakening | a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States
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| Washington Irving | an American author, essayist, biographer, and historian of the early 19th century. He is best known for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and Rip Van Winkle
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| James Fenimore Cooper | a profilic and popular American writer of the early 19th century who wrote numerous sea-stories and historical novelss known as the the "Leatherstocking Tales"
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| Elizabeth Blackwell | the first female graduate of a medical college; also was part of the women's rights movement and helped educate women
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| Susan B. Anthony | a militant lecturer for women's rights
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| Maine Law | a drastic statute of 1851 that prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor in the state of Maine
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| Burned-Over District | refers to the region of upstate New York where the Second Great Awakening had swept through the area
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| Transcendentalism | a term associated with a group of new ideas in literature that was a protest against the general state of culture and society
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| Oneida Community | a Utopian community in Oneida, New York that strived for perfection. They believed that Christ had already returned in the year 70
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| John Brown | An American abolitionist who attempted to end slavery through the use of violence. This increased the tension between the North and South. His life ended when he was hanged for murder and treason. He is regarded a martyr to the cause of human freedom.
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| Crittenden Compromise | An attempt to preserve the Union, but did not pass
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| Jamestown | the first permanent colony in Virginia
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| Powhatan | chief of many Algonquian-speaking towns in E. Virginia; represented Indians
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| Bacon's Rebellion | uprising in Virginia colony led by Nathaniel Bacon; due to discontent from rising taxes, depressed tobacco prices, roaming livestock
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| Plymouth | colony established by Pilgrims (Separatists)
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| Mayflower Compact of 1620 | a formal agreement by Pilgrim leaders to abide by laws made by leaders of their own choosing
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| Anne Hutchinson | voiced opinions that many church leaders were hypocrites and incompetent; sought to eradicate that "grace by good works"
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| King Phillips War | sparked by the murder of John Sassamon (praying Indian) that warned colonists that Metacom was planning to attack- Indians burn settlements in retaliation
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| Halfway covenant | baptized children of church members could be admitted to a halfway membership and secure baptism for their own children in turn
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| Great Awakening | the widespread revival of faith due to the sense of religious decline in the 1730s
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| Treaty of Paris | Ended the Revolutionary War
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| Northwest Ordinance, 1787 | Set up the framework of a government for the Northwest territory. The Ordinance provided that the Territory would be divided into 3 to 5 states, outlawed slavery in the Territory, and set 60,000 as the minimum population for statehood.
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 | Provided for the orderly surveying and distribution of land belonging to the U.S.
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