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Transcendentalism
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liberal, religious movement of the 1830s. the truth "transcends" from the senses. every man has an inner light that can touch god
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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19th cenutry writer.
"to be great is to misunderstood" poems and philosophical essays |
writer
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Henry David Thoreau
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transcendentalist and nonconformisst. "best govt is the one that rules least" naturalist
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Walden
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Maragret Fuller
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started women's rights in the 19th century. "women in the 19th century"- forshadowed the women;s rights movement. 1st female reporter
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James Fenimore Cooper
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books on the Frontier "the Deerslayer", "last of the Mohicans"
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books
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Herman Melville
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unconventional. South Pacific. Moby Dick. 1st symbolic writer
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whale
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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the scarlet letter
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Edgar Allen poe
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the Raven
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Washington Irving.
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1st Am for international recognition. sleepy hollow
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John G. Whittier
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Quaker writer. aabolitionist..poem=slavery evil
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Walt Whitman
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poet. leaves of grass. free verse.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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1835 French historian came to Am to observe democracy. wrote "Democracy in Am". accurate account of stengths and weaknesses of Am democracy. popular
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writer
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Charles G. Finney
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avid religious reformer who helped start the 2nd Great Awakening
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religious
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the Second Great Awakening
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religious revival in the 1820s and 1830s. emphasized personal improvement, avoidance of sin, and hard work. stimulate reform movements of 1800s: temperance, abolition, moral reform, and public education
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reform
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Brook Farm
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perfect union b/t intellectual and manual labor. failed b/c lack of desire to work
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New Harmony
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society focused on Utopian Socialism. started by Robert Owens
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r. owens
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Oneida
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Perfectionist Utopian Movement. commune, shared everything, even marriage
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share
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Mormons
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religious sect. founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. beliefs = unpopular in early years.Bringham Young led the Mormons to Great Salt Lake City in 1847 ->propsered
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Dorthea Dix
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reform in prisons and creation of insane asylums. (insane ppl put in boxes/mistreated)
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reform
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Horace Mann
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reform in educational sys during 19th century. lengthened the school year, public education, standardized books in classrooms
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reform
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McGuffey's Reader
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book about moral teachings. used by 80% of Am to learn how to read
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US Temperance Union 1833
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group promoted a limitation of liquor consumption
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Nativism
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german and Irish immigration flood into Am during 1850s ->resentment/nativism. feared that foreign immigrants would reproduce more quickly, outvote, overwhelm the "true" white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASp) Am
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Lucretia Mott
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Quaker and participant at Seneca Falla Conference. supported women's rights and antislavery movements
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woman
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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women's rights activist, attended Seneca falls. advocated suffrage for women
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suffrage
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Seneca FAll Convention 1848
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1st women's rights movement meeting. held in NY. b/c some prominent women could not participate in an antislavery convention. prompted them to fight for women;s rights.
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Cult of True Womanhood
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domesticity, piety, purity, and submissiveness as the attribute to a true woman. "cult of domesticiyt" influenced how women viewd themselves in 19th century
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