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41 Cards in this Set
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Second Great Awakening
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renewed interest to religion
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denominations
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religious groups
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Richard Allen
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founded 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
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Shakers
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The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
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Ann Lee
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led the shakers to America
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Brigham Young
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led thousands of Smith's followers across the Rocky Mountains
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Mormons
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undertook one of the most enduring utopian ventures
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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writer, led transcendentalism
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Henry David Thoreau
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intellectuals, writer led transcendentalism
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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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Lyman Beecher
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preached extensively about the effects of alcohol
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temperance movement
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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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Emma Willard
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founded the Troy Female Seminary, first college level school for women
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Mary Lyon
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founded Mount Holyoke Seminary
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Horace Mann
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first secretary of education
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Dorothea Dix
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most effective female reformers, wanted to help the mentally ill
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rehabilitation
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treatment to restore them to a useful and productive place in society
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penitentiary
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institution that believed criminals could be reformed and released back into society as useful people
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American Colonization Society
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group that had the idea to send freed African Americans to Africa to found new settlements
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David Walker
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freed African American businessman published the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"
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William Lloyd Garrison
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white New England journalists
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Liberator
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an abolitionist newspaper
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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first national antislavery organization to be devoted to immediate abolition and radical equality
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Frederick Douglass
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fugitive slave from Maryland
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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 Grimke
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ran away from her slave owner and joined the American Anti-Slavery Society
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Angelina Grimke
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escaped slavery joined AASS published a pamphlet to convince southern women to help end slavery
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Theodore Weld
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Angelina's husband, helped them write and publish American Slavery As It Is
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Elijah Lovejoy
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an abolitionist editor in Alton, Illinois
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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abolitionist took lead in organizing efforts to address these issues
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Lucretia Mott
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took lead with Elizabeth Stanton in organizing efforts to address women's rights
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Seneca Falls Convention
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First meeting to advance the rights of women
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Declaration of Sentiments
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document that insisted women can vote, get children in a divorce, control property and gainings
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Susan B Anthony
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pursued task of achieving reforms called for at Seneca Falls, made significant contribution
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Lucy Stone
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also made a big contribution to 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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manifest destiny
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God intended the US to expand westward
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