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