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31 Cards in this Set
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Second Great Awakening
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a revival of religious feeling that swept the country beginning the early 1800s
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revivalists
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preachers who wanted to revive, or reenergize, the role of religion
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Charles Grandison Finney
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one of the most influential revivalists
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evangical
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designed to elicit strong emotions and attract converts
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Joseph Smith
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one of the organizers of the Church of the jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Mormons
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members of the Church of Jesus christ of Latter-day Saints
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Unitarians
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a separate group of Unitarians who saw God as a single divine being
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utopian communities
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settlements that aspired to be perfect communities
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transcedentalists
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a group who developed a new way to look at humanity, nature, and God, and the relationship among them
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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a former Unitarian minister who was the leading Transcedentalists
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Henry David Thoreau
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one of Emerson's most important followers
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public school movement
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movement which sought to establish such a system of tax-supported public schools
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Horace Mann
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one of the greatest school reformers
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Dorothea Dix
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one reformer who turned her religious ideals into action
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penitentiary movement
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the prison reform movement lead by Dorothea Dix
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abtemperance movement
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an effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it
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Neal Dow
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participant of the temperance movement
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freedman
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former slave
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Nat Turner
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a slave who revolted because he believed God told him to do so
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abolition movement
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an effort to get rid of slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
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a printer who wanted to abolish slavery
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Frederick Douglass
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a former slave whose booming voice filled lecture halls with touching stories about the difficulty of his life as a slave
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Gag Rule
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a law which prohibitied debated and discussion in Congress on the subject of slavery
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matrilineal
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cultures in which the inheritance of family names and propery followed the female line in the family
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Sojourner Truth
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a former slave from New York who held audiences spellbound with her powerful speech and arguments
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women's movement
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a movement working for greater rights and opportunities for women
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Lucretia Mott
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participant in the women's movement
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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participant in the women's movement
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Seneca Falls Convention
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the nation's first Women's Rights Convention
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Amelia Bloomer
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publisher of _The Lily_ who appeared at the Seneca Falls Convention
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Married Women's Property Act
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guaranteed many property rights for women
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