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antebellum period
period before civil war, reformers dedicate to many causes, like free public schools.
second great awakening
religious revivals in the early decades of the 19th century
timothy dwight
president of yale college in CT. motivated young men to become evangelical preachers.
millennialism
beleif by william miller that Christ would return on a specific date.
romantic movement
in europe .movement in art, literature ,stressed intuition& feelings ,individual acts of heroism and study of nature.
transcendalists
qwstion doctrines of church. looked to mystical/intuitive way of thnkng as a means for finding ones self& looking for God in nature.
ralph waldo emerson
wrote"the american scholar"urged America to create new American culture: independent-thinkng, primacy of spirit. matters over material.
henry david thoreau
"On civil disobedience" advocate of nonviolent protest.argued to not obey unjust laws.
brook farm;George Ripley
protestant minister.launched communal experiment,brook farm,to acheive more natural union w/intellect&manual labor.
margaret fuller
feminist(advocate of women's rights)writer nd editor.
shakers
held property in common and kept male/females apart.forbade sex&marriage
robert owen,new harmony
welsh industrialist.secular exprmnt,hoped to be answer to inequity& alienation.failed due to disagreemnts/$ problem
joseph humphrey noyes;oneida community
idea of social and economic equality,members shared property and partners. $ by selling high qaulity silverware
chares fourier;phalanxes
French socialist.advocate that people share work,living arrangmnts to solve prob.of fierce competive society
horace greely
newspaprer editor
george caleb bingham
painter,depicted pple in common activities and places:riding riverboat,voting, doing chores
thomas cole/frederick church
emphasized heroic beauty of american landscapes.and scenes on hudson river/school
washington irving/james fenimore cooper.nathaniel hawthorne
wrote fiction using american settings. wrote scarlet letter-questioned intolerance & conformity of American life
american temperance society
used moral arguments to have drinkers to abstain from alcohol.
washingtonians
recovering alcoholics,argued that alcoholism was a disease needing practical,hepful treatment.
asylum movement
reformers looked to alleviate lot of criminals,emotionally disturbed ppl.hoped to cure antisocial behavior through mental inst.
dorothea dix
former school teacher. dedicated life to provide good conditions for mental ppl.led to professional treatmnt of patients in ST.
thomas gallaudet,Dr.sam gridley.
estb.school for deaf,estb.school for blind
auburn system.
enforced rules of discipline and provided moral instruction and work programs
horace mann
leading advocate of public schools.wrked for improved schools,teacher prep.,longer school yr,attendance of students
mcguffey readers
textbooks became basis of reading and moral responsibility:hardwork,sobriety,punctiality.
sarah,angelina grimke
objected to male opposition to antislavery mvmnt.
lucretia mott,elizabeth cady stanton
campaigned for womens rights after being barred to speak at anitslavery convention
seneca falls convention
1st womens rights convention.issued document stating men and women are created equal.
american colonization society
inst.idea of transporting freed slaves to african colony.estb.african american settlement in monrovia,liberia
american antislavery society
garrison and others advocated freedom of slaves w/no compensation to slave holders.
william lloyd garrison,the liberator
publshed newspaper.marks abolitionist movement.
liberty party
pledge to bring about end of slavery by political and legal means
frederick douglass, harriet tubman, david ruggles, sojouner truth, william still
black leaders/abolitionist. helped smuggle slaves to free territory in N & canada
david walker/henry highland garnet
2 northern black argued that slaves should take action themselves by rising up in revolt against their masters
nat tuner
VA slave,led revolt where 55 whites were killed.
american peace society
goal to abolish war
sylvester graham
dietary reforms,eating whole wheat bread & sylvester graham's crackers to promote good digestion
amelia bloomer
dress reforms,wear amelia bloomers's pantalettes instead of long skirts