Chapter 12 Flashcards

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Charles Finney

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was a Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister who became an important figure in the Second Great Awakening. His influence during this period was enough that he has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism.

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Second Great Awakening

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was a period of great religious revival that extended into the antebellum period of the United States, with widespread Christian evangelism and conversions.

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Peter Cartwright

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(exhorter) was a "hellfire and brimstone" preacher born in Amherst County, Virginia

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Timothy Dwight

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The Wits' New England origins gave their poetry a Federalist political bias in favor of a strong national government.

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American Temperance Society

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The American Society (rules) for the Promotion of Temperance or better known as the American Temperance Society (ATS) was a society established on February 13, 1826 in Boston, MA.

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Horace Mann

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(May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834-1837.

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Dorothea Dix

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(April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887) was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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(December 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer.

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Frederick Douglas

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(born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, circa 1818 - February 20, 1895) was born into slavery and is best known for his role in bringing the harsh realities of slavery to the attention of white Americans, at the same time being a living example of the fallacy of claims

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Neo-Calvinism

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a form of Dutch Calvinism, is the movement initiated by the theologian and former Dutch prime minister Abraham Kuyper.

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Seneca Falls Convention

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was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York over two days, July 19–20, 1848.

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Brook Farm

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also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and EducationFelton, 124 or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education,Rose, 140 was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s

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Lyman Beecher

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(October 12, 1775 - January 10, 1863) was a Presbyterian minister, temperance movement Founder (American Temperance Society) Co-founder and leader, and the father of 13 children, many of whom were noted leaders, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher

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Lewis Tappan

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1788 - 1863) was a New York abolitionist who worked to achieve the freedom of the illegally enslaved Africans of the Amistad. Contacted by Connecticut abolitionists soon after the Amistad arrived in port, Tappan focused extensively on the captive Africans.

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“Cult of True Womanhood”

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or Cult of True Womanhood (named such by its detractors) was a prevailing view among upper and middle class white women during the nineteenth century, in Great Britain and the United States.

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American Anti-Slavery Association

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(1833–1870) was an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.

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Declaration of Sentiments

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also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men, 100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, now known to Americans as the Seneca Falls Convention.

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Liberator

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(1831-1866) was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. Garrison published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from January 1, 1831, to the final issue of January 1, 1866.