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antebellum period
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time period before Civil War.
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Second Great Awakening
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to educate believers and to go against liberal beliefs, and rationalization.
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Timothy Dwight
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a reverend, and president of Yale College in Connecticut.
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revivalism; revival (camp) meetings
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groups to the thousands revived in their faith there.
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millennialism
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a belief on October 21, 1844 the Second Coming would occur.
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Church of Latter Day Saints; Mormons
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founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, includes Book of Mormon
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Joseph Smith; Brigham Young
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escaping persecution leaded the Mormons to the western frontier.
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New Zion
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name of community of Latter Day Saints in Great Salt Lake in Utah in the banks.
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romantic movement
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in art, and literature stressed feelings, intuition, heroism, and study of nature.
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transcendentalists
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went away from established doctrines and found God through nature.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar"
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has written essays and lectures to tell Americans to be different from Europeans.
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Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "On Civil Disobedience"
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tested transcemdentalist philosophy, and wrote on civil disobedience in spiring others.
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Brook Farm; George Ripley
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a Protestant minister who made a community more natual union and with manuel labor.
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feminists
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advocate of women's rights.
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Margaret Fuller
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a feminist, writer, and editor.
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Theodore Parker
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theologian and radical reformers.
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Utopian communities
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a different or ideal communities.
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Shakers
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religious communal communities who forbidden marriage and sex, Amana did not though.
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Robert Owen; New Harmony
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secular community to answer inequity, alienation caused by Industrial Revolution.
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Joseph Henry Noyes; Oneida community
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was dedicated from a perfect community, and made and sold silverware.
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Charles Fourier; phalanxes
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short lived communities that shared living arrangements.
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Horace Greeley
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newspaper editor.
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George Caleb Bingham
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drew common people.
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William S. Mount
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gained fame and popularity for his rural compositions.
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Thomas Cole
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emphasized heroic beauty of American landscapes.
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Frederick Church
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same as Thomas Cole.
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Hudson River School
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used in painting in New York.
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Washington Irving
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wrote fiction on American settings.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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wrote fiction on American settings.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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questioned intolerance and conformity in American life.
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temperance
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a movement to stop people from drinking alcohol.
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American Temperance Society
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founded by Protestant ministers and others concerned high rate of alcohol consumption and effects of it.
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Washingtonians
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founded 1840 to recover alcoholics believing as a disease and needed treatment.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
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bring up temperance again in 1870's.
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asylam movement
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to make public patients institution
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Dorothea Dix
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after teaching for the rest of her life fixed the conditions of mental patients.
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Thomas Gallaudet
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founded a school for the deaf.
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Samuel Gridley Howe
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founded a school for the blind.
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penitentiaries
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these new buildings holding criminals went through different experiments.
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Awburn system
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a penitentiaries experiment had rigid rules, moral instruction, and work programs.
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Horace Mann
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leading supporter of public school movement.
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public school movement
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to improve schools, attendance, longer school year teacher preparation.
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McGuffey readers
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had virtues did hardwork, punctuality, and sobriety.
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women's rights movement
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the change for men and women to be equal.
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Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke
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objected to male opposition to their antislavery activist.
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Letter on the Condition of Women and the Equality of the Sexes
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in protest written by Sarah Grimke.
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Lucretia Mott
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campaigning for womens rights after being un-allowed from speaking in a antislavery convention.
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