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40 Cards in this Set
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Second Great Awakening
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A renewed and passionate interest in religion that began to develop in towns in upstate New York in as early as the 1790s
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Revivals
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Large religious gatherings
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Denominations
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Religious groups
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Richard Allen
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Founded in Philadelphia one of the first African American churches in North America in 1794
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Utopias
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Communities designed to create a prefect society
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Ann Lee
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Known as mother Ann claim to be the messiah who came to found a society from free son
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Brigham Young
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Leader of the Mormons
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Mormons
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Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Transcendentalism
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Belief that people can transcend, or rise above, material things in life to reach a higher level of understanding
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Writer
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Henry David Thoreau
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Writer
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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 1700s
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Lyman Beecher
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Preached extensively about the effects of alcohol
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Temperance Movement
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Reformers organized it to persuade others to limit alcohol consumption
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Prohibition
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The complete ban on the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
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Catharine Beecher
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Supported increased educational opportunities for women
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Mary Lyon
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Founded a woman's college called Mount Holyoke Seminary, in South Hadley Massachusetts
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Emma Willard
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Founded the Troy Female Seminary, the first college level school for women, in New York in 1821
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Horace Mann
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Massachusetts' first secretary of education
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Dorothea Dix
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One of the first effective female reformers
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Rehabilitation
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Treatment to restore people to a useful and productive place in society
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Penitentiary
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An institution that reformers hoped would rid the country of crime
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American Colonization Society
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group organized to send Freed African Americans to Africa
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David Walker
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A free African American businessman from Boston who publish 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
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The Liberator
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An abolitionist newspaper
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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Group founded in 1833 by abolitionists first national antislavery organization devoted to immediate abolition and to racial equality
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Frederick Douglas
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A fugitive slave from Maryland; Member of the American Anti-Slavery Society
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Sojourner Truth
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Former slave who worked tirelessly for the American Anti-Slavery Society
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Sarah Grimké
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One of the most effective antislavery activists
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Theodore Weld
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Angela Grimké's husband
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Elijah Lovejoy
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An abolitionist editor in Alton, Illinois
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Lucreatia Mott
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Took lead in organizing to address womens right issues.
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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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Called for legal reforms that would grant married women the right to control property and earnings and to gain custody of their children in the event of a divorce
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Susan B. Anthony
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Made significant contributions to the success of women's rights.
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Married Women's Property Act
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Permitted married women to own property
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Lucy Stone
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Made significant contributions to the success of women's rights.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Took lead in organizing to address womens right issues.
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Angela Grimké
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One of the most effective antislavery activists
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