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38 Cards in this Set
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Second Great Awakening
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Evangelical religious movement that spread through the United Stares beginning in the early 1800's
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Revivals
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Public gatherings at which ministers preach to a large number of people
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Denominations
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Religious Groups
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Richard Allen
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He founded in Philadelphia one of the first African American churches in North America
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Utopias
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Communities designed to create a perfect society; popular in the United States in the early to mid-1800's
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Shakers
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United Believers in Christ's Second Appearing; religious group led by Mother Ann Lee
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Ann Lee
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She led the United Believers in Christ's Second Appearance
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Brigham Young
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Help lead Smith's followers cross the Rocky Mountains.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In a intellectual group including writing with Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
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In a intellectual group including writing with Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Members of a religious reform movement that originally arose among New England Protestants in the late 1700's
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transcendentalism
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Belief that people can rise above material things in life to reach a higher level of understanding
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Lyman Beecher
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Preached extensively about the effect of alcohol.
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Temperance movement
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A social reform effort begun in the mid 1800's to encourage people to limit alcohol consumption
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Prohibition
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Complete can on the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol
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Catharine Beecher
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She supported increased education opportunities for women
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Emma Willard
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She founded the Troy Female Seminary, the first college level school for women
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Mary Lyon
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She found the Mount Holyoke Seminary in South Hadley
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Horace Mann
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Massachusetts's first secretary of education, united local school districts into a state system, raised teachers salaries
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Dorothea Dix
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She was one of the most effective female reformers
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Rehabilitation
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Treatment to restore someone to a useful and constructive place in society
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Penitentiary
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Isolated and structured environment for convicted criminals; intended to reform them
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American Colonization Society
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Group organized in the early 1800's to send freed African Americans to Africa
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David Walker
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A free African American businessman from Boston; published the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
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William Lloyd Garrison
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A white New England journalist; to action
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American Anti-Slave Society
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Group founded in 1833 by abolitionists; the first national antislavery organization devoted to immediate abolition and racial equality
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Frederick Douglass
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A fugitive slave from Maryland
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Sojourner Truth
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She was a former slave who worked tirelessly for the American Anti-Slacery Society
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Sarah Grimke
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One of the two most effective antislavery activist;came from South carolina
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Angelina Grimke
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Another one of the most effective antislavery activist; she came from South Carolina
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Elijah Lovejoy
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An abolitionist editor in Alton , Illinois, was murdered in 1837 as he tried to precent a mob form destroying his printing press
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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She was an abolitionist who took the lead in organizing efforts to address these issues with Lucretia Mott
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Lucretia Mott
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She was an abolitionist who took the lead in organizing efforts to address these issues with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Seneca Falls Convention
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First national women's rights convention; site where the Declaration of Sentiments was written
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Declaration of Sentiments
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Statement written and signed by women's rights supporters who attended the Seneca Falls Convention; modeled after the Declaration of independence
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Susan B. Anthony
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She and 3 other women made particularly significant contributions to the success of the movement
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Married Women's Property Act
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New York law that permitted married women to own property, file lawsuits, and retain earnings; major victory for the early women's rights movement
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