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10 Cards in this Set
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Temperance Movement
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alcohol cumsumption was at historical hight, feard that america was a "nation of drunkards", women thought threat to family
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Frederick Douglass
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self-educated, slave, escaped to north
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Henry David Thoreau
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wrote Walden, transcendentalist, lived two years of solitary life
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Harriet Tubman
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formed underground railroad, escaped slave, "Black Moses"
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Transcendentalism
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believed imp. truths went beyond understanding; rejected traditional religion, believed people control fates
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Seneca Falls Movement
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star of women's rights, in new york, mostly ignored
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The LIberator
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newspaper, Boston, anti-slavery
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Compulsory Education
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mandatory school attendence, upset farm families, still in effect today
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Utopian Communties
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share everything, live in harmony, religous communites
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Prohibition
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some states try to ban alcohol, often protested, had health benefits
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