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liberal religious belief held by many of the Founders such as Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin that stressed rationilism and moral behavior rather than Christian revelation while retaining beilief in a Supreme being

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Deism

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religious revival that began in the frontier and swept eastward stirring an evangelical spirit in many areas of American life

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second great awakening

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the two religious denominations that benefited most from the evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century

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methodists and baptists

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religious group founded by Joseph Smith that eventually established a cooperative commonwealth in Utah

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mormons

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intellectual commune in Massachusetts based on "plain living and high thinking"

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brook farm

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Thomas Jefferson's stately self designed home in Virginia that became a model of American architecture

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monticello

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philosophical and literary movement centered in New England that greatly influenced many American writers of the early nineteenth century

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transcendtalism

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The doctrine promoted by American writer Henry David Thoreau in an essay of the same name that later influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

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on the duty of civil disobedience

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Walt Whitman's originally shocking poetic masterpiece

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leaves of grass

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great but commercially unsuccessful novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of a white whale

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moby dick

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quietly determined reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill

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dorothea dix

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The "Mormon Moses" who led persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land in Utah

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brigham young

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Leading feminist who wrote the "Declaration Sentiments" in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage

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elizabeth cady stanton

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the masterpiece of new England writer louisa may alcott

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little women

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a disturbing new England masterpiece about adultery and guilt in the old Puritan era

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the scarlet letter

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new York literary movement that drew on both regional and national themes

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Knickerbocker group

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Commune established in new harmony indiana by scottish industrialist robert owen

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new harmony

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memorable 1848 meeting in new york where women made an appeal based on the declaration of independence

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seneca falls convention

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quaker women's rights advocate who also strongly supported abolition of slavery

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lucretia mott

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reclusive new England poet who wrote about love death and immortality

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emily dickinson

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influential evangelical revivalist of the second great awakening

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charles g finney

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idealistic scottish industrialist whose attempt at a communal utopia in America failed

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robert owen

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leader of a radical new york commune that practiced complex marriage and eugenic birth control

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john humphrey noyes

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mary lyon

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pioneering women's educator, founder of Mount Holyoke seminary in Massachusetts

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louisa may alcott

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novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling fam

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james fenimore cooper

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path breaking american novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization

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ralph waldo Emerson

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second rate poet and philosopher but first rate promoter of transcendetal ideals and american culture

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walt whitman

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bold unconventional poet who celebrated american democracy

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herman melville

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new York writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece

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eccentric southern born genius supernatural

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edgar allen poe