Chs Apush Chapter 15

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The second Great awakening

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A series of religious revivals in 1801, based on Methodism and baptism. These revivals attracted women, blacks, and native Americans.

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Utopian societies

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An image of a perfect world created by socialists modeled by perfect communities.

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Maine Law of 1851

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Law passed in Maine that prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor

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Mormon Religion

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Religion founded by Joseph Smith in 1830.

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shakers

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American religious sect devoted to the teachings of Ann Lee Stanley. It prohibited marriage and sexual relationships.

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Woman's rights convention at Seneca Falls

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Meeting of feminists in 1848. Demanded voting rights for women.

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American Temperance society

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A group formed in Boston in 1826 to help people who are heavily influenced by alcohol.

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Joseph Smith

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Created the Mormon Religion.

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Horace Mann

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Idealistic Grad of Brown University. He was involved in the reformation of public education. He campaigned for better school houses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum.

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Henry David Thoreau

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Author, Poet, Mystic, Transcendentalist, and nonconformist. Wrote Walden. He condemned the gov for allowing slavery. He was jailed for not paying his poll tax.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Writer born in Boston who was the leading exponent of transcendentalism.

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Susan B Anthony

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A Quaker and A lecturer for women's rights. Her followers were known as Suzy B's

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Walt Whitman

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Poet who lived in Brooklyn. His most famous collection of poems titled "Leaves of Grass" gained him the title "Poet Laureate of Democracy"

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Author cursed with hunger, cold, poverty, and debt. He was orphaned as a child and his 14 year old wife died of tuberculosis. He wrote books dealing with the ghostly and ghastly.

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Transcendentalism

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Movement in the 1830's that consisted of mainly modernizing the old puritan beliefs.

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Declaration of Sentiments

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Declared that "all men and women are created equal."

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Peter Cartwright

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Born in 1785, He was the best known of Methodist "circuit riders". He was a traveling preacher. He was ill-educated but he still converted thousands of people.

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Brigham Young

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Mormon Leader that led his oppressed followers to Utah in 1846. He became the territorial governor in 1850. In 1857 Washington sent a federal army against the harassing Mormons.

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Herman Melville

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Author born in New York in 1819. He was an uneducated orphan. He served as a whaler before writing his famous book Moby Dick in 1851.

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Author who lived in New York from 1789-1851. He was the first novelist to gain world fame and make new world themes respectable.

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Lucretia Mott

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Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's rights convention in New York in 1848.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A mother of seven and Member of the women's rights movement in 1840. She shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women.

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Dorothea Dix

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A New England teacher and author who spoke against inhumane treatment of insane prisoners. she spent 8 years gathering info for her reports that would change how the insane were treated.

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Hudson River School

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School in the 1820's and 1830's that excelled inn romantic art.

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Margaret Fuller

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A transcendentalist and journalist involved in the anti-slavery movement. she also wrote "The Dial".

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Emma Willard

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She founded the Troy Female Seminary in New York which was the model for girls' schools everywhere.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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American Poet and professor of modern languages at Harvard. born in 1807. His poetry catered to the upper class and more educated population.

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Unitarianism

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Faith that believed that God existed in only one person. They denied the divinity of Jesus and stressed the essential goodness of human nature.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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He wrote the Scarlet letter in 1850. The Scarlet letter is about a women who commits adultery in a puritan village. He wrote The Marble Faun also.

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Oneida Community

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A group of Socio-Religious perfectionists who lived in New York. They practiced polygamy, communal property, and communal raising of children.