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17 Cards in this Set
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one of the most important leaders of the second Great Awakening
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Charles Grandison Finley
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the idea that people transcend, or rise above the material things in life
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transcendentalism
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started a community of Shakers, an American religious sect so called because of their tendency to shake their bodies during worship
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Ann Lee
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a period of widespread evangelism
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Second Great Awakening
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a group of people working tto establish a perfect society on Earth
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Utopian communities
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diseases that causes rot and left many families in Ireland with little food
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potato blight
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americans who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them
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nativists
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politcal organization founded by making it difficult for foreigners to become citizens and to hold office
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know nothing party
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social and exconomic level between the wealthy and the poor
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middle class
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poorly built, overcrowded housing hwere amny immigrants lived
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tenements
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created special facilities for mentally ill people
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Dorothea Dix
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all children should be educated in a common place
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common school movement
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improved education of visually impaired
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Samuel Gridley Howe
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improved education of hearing impaired people
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Thomas Gallaudet
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leading voice for educational reform in the mid-1800s
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horace mann
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established a college level institution for women
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emma willard
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first co-ed college in the US and was first to allow african-americans
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oberlin college
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