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13 Cards in this Set
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Henry David Thoreau |
Refused to pay a one-dollar tax to vote, sat on a hard wooden bench in a jail cell |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Henry David Thoreau's friend |
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Utopias |
Communities based on a vision of a perfect society |
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Revivals |
A series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions |
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Temperance |
Drinking little to no alcohol |
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Horace Mann |
A lawyer who became head of the Massachusetts board of education in 1837 |
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Normal school |
A school for training high school graduates as teachers |
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Thomas Gallaudet |
Developed a method to educate people who were hearing impaired, opened the Hartford school for the deaf in Connecticut in 1817 |
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Dr. Samuel Gridley |
Advanced the cause of those who were visually impaired. He developed books with large raised letters. |
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Dorothea Dix |
Began visiting prisons in 1841, she found that the prisoners were often living in inhumane conditions |
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Transcendentalists |
Stressed the relationship between humans and nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience |
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Margaret Fuller |
A writer also a leading transcendentalist. In her poems supported rights for women. |
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Emily Dickinson |
Wrote simple, personal, deeply emotional poetry. The best remembered women poet of the era. |
