Chapter 15

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The age of reason

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Thomas Paine's treat hives that accuse Church of the seeking to acquire power and profit and to enslave mankind

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The american scholar

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's address to Harvard College in which he declared that an intellectual independence from Europe urging American scholars to develop their own traditions

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American temperance movement

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Founded in Boston in 1826 as part of a growing effort of nineteenth-century reformers to limit alcohol consumption

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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Abolitionist and woman's right activist first woman to earn a medical degree founded in the new York information for indigenous women and children

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Brook farm

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Transcendentalist commune founded by a group of intellectual to emphasize living plainly while pursuing the life of the mind the community fell into debt and dissolved when they are communal home burned down in 1846

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Burned over district

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Popular name for Western New York Region particularly swept up in the religious fever of the Second Great Awakening

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Deism

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18th century religious doctrine that emphasized reason war of behavior and the scientific pursuit of knowledge most dias rejected biblical inerrancy and the divinity of Christ but they did not believe that a supreme being created the universe

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Dorothea Dix

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Activist for prison reform and the mentally ill created first mental asylums

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Charles Grandison Finney

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Well known evangelist from the Second Great Awakening America's foremost revivalist encourage women to praise oppose liquor and slavery

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Hudson river School

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American artistic movement that produced romantic renditions of local landscape one of the first

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Lyceum

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For the Greek name for the ancient ASEAN school where Aristotle taught public lecture hall that hosted speakers on topics ranging from science to moral philosophy part of a broader flourishing of higher education in the mid-nineteenth century

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Maine Law of 1851

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Which prohibited the manufacture of an sale of alcohol a dozen other states filed mains lead so much most statues provided an effective and

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Horace Mann

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Humanitarian who advocated for public schools with butter teachers longer school term expanded curriculum and higher pay for teachers father of the American common school push for reforms for mental health institutions and to end slavery

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Mormons

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religious followers of Joseph Smith who founded communal oligarchic religious order in the 1830s officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints Mormons facing deep hostility from there non Mormon neighbors eventually migrated west and established a flourishing settlement in the Utah desert

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Lucretia Mott

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Quaker abolitionist social reformer an advocate of women's rights organized the Seneca Falls convention

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New Harmony

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Communal Society of around 1000 members established in New Harmony Indiana by Robert Owen the community attracted ahead hodgepodge of individual from scholars to cross and fell apart due to in fighting and confusion after just two years

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Oneida Community

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the more radical utopian communities established in the 19th century AD advocated free love birth control and eugenics utopian communities reflected the reformist spirit of the age

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Second Great awakening

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Religious revival characterized by emotional math camp meetings and widespread conversion brought about by democratization of religious this and multiplication of the nominations by 4 members

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Shakers

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Called shakers for the lively dance worship the emphasized simple communal living and where expected to practice celibacy first transplanted to America from England by mother and leave the Shakers kind of six thousand members by 1840 though by the 19 forties the movement had largely died out

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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President of national Woman Suffrage Association from 1885 to 1890 drafted the Declaration of sentiments co-organized Seneca Falls convention

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Transcendentalism

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Literary and intellectual movement that emphasized individualism and self-reliance predicted upon the belief that each person possesses an inner light that can point the way the truth and direct contact with God

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Unitarians

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Believe in a unitary diet reject the divinity of Christ and emphasize the inherent goodness of mankind Unitarianism inspire apart by besom first caught on in New England and the end of the eighteenth century

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Women's rights convention at Seneca Falls

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Gathering of feminist activists in Seneca Falls New York work Elizabeth Cady Stanton read her declaration of sentiments taking that all men and women are created equal that the goals of the women's rights movement