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39 Cards in this Set
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Second Great Awakening
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A renewed passionate interest in religion.
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Denominations
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Religious or racial groups.
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Richard Allen
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Founded one of the first African American churches.
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Utopias
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Communities designed to create a perfect society.
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Ann Lee
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Leaders of the Shakers.
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Shakers
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Group that was known to shake their bodies during worship.
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Brigham Young
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Leader of Le Mormons.
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Transcendentalism
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The 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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A New-England intellectual.
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Henry David Thoreau
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A New-England intellectual.
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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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Catherine Beecher
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Was among the reformers that supported increased educational opportunities for women.
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Emma Willard
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Founded the Troy Female Seminary.
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Mary Lyon
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Founded Mount Holyoke Seminary.
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Horace Mann
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Massachusetts's first secretary of education.
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Dorothea Dix
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She tried helping mentally ill people.
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Rehabilitation
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Treatment used to restore mentally ill people to a useful and productive pace in society.
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Penitentiary
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A sort of prison.
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American Colonization Society
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Made a plan to send freed slaves to new colonies.
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David Walker
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A free African American businessman from Boston.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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A white New England journalist.
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Liberator
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An abolitionist newspaper.
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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The first national antislavery organization to be devoted to immediate abolition and racial equality.
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Fredrick Douglas
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A fugitive slave from Maryland.
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Sojourner Truth
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Another former slave who worked tirelessly for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Sarah Grimke
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Abolitionist.
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Angelina Grimke
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Abolitionist.
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Theodore Weld
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Angelina Grimke's husband.
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Elijah Lovejoy
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An abolitionist editor in Alton, Illinois.
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Elizabeth Candy Stanton
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Abolitionist.
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Lucretia Mott
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Abolitionist.
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Seneca Falls Convention
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First meeting on Women's Rights.
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Declaration of Sentiments
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Called for legal reforms on women's rights.
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Susan B. Anthony
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Women's rights activist.
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Lucy Stone
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Women's rights activist.
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Married Women's Property Act
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Permitted married women to own property.
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