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Vocabulary

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Cult of True Womanhood   Idol of middle class woman hood in early 19th century, said that women were naturally pious  
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Second Great Awakening   Religious revival that said salvation is to everyone and to stress the love of god and his mercy  
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Charles Grandison Finney   Most prominent leader in the second great awakening  
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Shakers   a religious commune from England that occured in America that Believed in no sex, didn't reproduce  
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Oneida   Lead by John Humphrey Boyes, only married within their community and developed manufacturing skills  
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Owenites   Robert Owen followers  
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Fourierists   Believed in a perfect society (Utopia) a social reform planned by Charles Fourier  
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Auburn System   Strict Jail system, which allowed little social contract among prisoners, mostly required silence, punished for slightest infraction of the rules  
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Dorothea Dix   Created the 1st generation of American Mental Asylums  
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Temperance Movement   advocated moderation in the use of alcohol, Washington and WCTU were the main organizations involved  
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Abolitionism   - World wide movement to abolish Slavery - Didnt expect the country to go to war  
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William Loyd Garrison   - Very radical abolitionists - Thought Slavery should end immediately  
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Seneca Falls Convention   Women's rights movement, talked about role of women in society  
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Declaration of Sentiments   - Signed at Seneca falls convention by MEN and women - Demanded equality w/men  
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Transcendentalism   - A reaction against Romanticism - regarded as nature as an essence of divinity - Thought humans were good and optimistic - Valued people being individual and aspiring  
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Herman Melville   Wrote Moby Dick  
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Nathaniel Hawthrne   Wrote Scarlet Letter  
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Edgar Allen Poe   Wrote scary stores and poems, very depressed and gothic writer  
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Walt Whitman   Wrote Leaves of Grass  
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Lyceums   Sponsored public lectures of ten featuring writers that were popular in the 19th century, favored by women.  
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Manifeset Destiny   Was the fuel for Oregon Fever because of the rich farmlands and open space  
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo   Was signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Us and Mexico ended the Mexican war  
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Gold Rush   Term for the gold mining boom in the U.S. western terrtories in the late 1840's and 1850's  
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William Proviso   Amendment that banned slavery from any territory from the republic of Mexico  
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Popular Sovereignty   - Squatter Sovereignty - Lewis Cass - Tried to create new territories disregarding non and pro slave opinions  
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Compromise of 1850   Act that admitted California as a free state and passed a stricter Fugitive slave act  
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Free Soil Party   opposed slavery in new territories  
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Fugitive Slave Act   a law that made people return runaway slaves  
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