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Charles Finney
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was a Presbyterian and Congregationalist figure in the Second Great Awakening. His influence during this period was enough that he has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism.
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Second Great Awakening
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was a Christian religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States, which expressed Arminian theology by which every person could be saved through revivals. It enrolled millions of new members, and led to the formation of new denominations. Many converts believed that the Awakening heralded a new millennial age. The Second Great Awakening stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
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Peter Cartwright
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was an American Methodist revivalist and politician in Illinois. Born in Amherst County, Virginia, Cartwright was a missionary who helped start the Second Great Awakening and personally baptized twelve thousand converts
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Timothy Dwight
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was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College
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American Temperance Society
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also known as the American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was a society established on February 13, 1826 in Boston, MA. Within five years there were 2,220 local chapters in the U.S. with 170,000 members who had taken a pledge to abstain from drinking distilled beverages
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Horace Mann
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was an American education reformer, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1834 to 1837. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education since its creation, he was elected to the US House of Representatives
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Dorothea Dix
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was an American activist on behalf of the indigent insane who, through a vigorous program of lobbying state legislatures and the United States Congress, created the first generation of American mental asylums
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William Lloyd Garrison
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was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement.
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Frederick Douglas
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was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing
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Neo-Calvinism
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a form of Dutch Calvinism, is the movement initiated by the theologian and former Dutch prime minister Abraham Kuyper
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Seneca Falls Convention
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was an early and influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19–20, 1848. It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Boston-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her speaking ability, a skill rarely cultivated by American women at the time
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Brook Farm
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or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s
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Lyman Beecher
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was a Presbyterian minister, American Temperance Society co-founder and leader, and the father of 13 children, many of whom were noted leaders, and was also creditied with being one of the main leaders in the Second Great Awakening
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Lewis Tappan
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was a New York abolitionist who worked to achieve the freedom of the illegally enslaved Africans of the Amistad. Contacted by Connecticut abolitionists soon after the Amistad arrived in port, Tappan focused extensively on the captive Africans
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“Cult of True Womanhood”
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was a prevailing view among upper and middle class women during the nineteenth century, in Great Britain and the United States, According to the ideals of the cult of domesticity, women were supposed to embody perfect virtue in all senses
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American Anti-Slavery Association
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was created to protest for equality among blacks and began the movement for equal rights among women as well
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Declaration of Sentiments
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a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men, 100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York, now known as the Seneca Falls Convention, stated the basic rights that women shall obtain
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Liberator
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was an abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. the newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves" in the United States
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