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19 Cards in this Set
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Second Great Awakening |
-Religious movement, sweeps U.S after 1790 |
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Charles Grandison Finney |
Preacher who inspires emotional religious faith |
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Revival |
Gathering to awaken religious faith; lasts 4 to 5 days |
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The African- American church |
-Camp meetings, baptist, and Methodist churches open to blacks and whites
- In the East African Americans had their own churches |
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Transcendentalism |
- was a literary and philosophical movement, which emphasizes simple life, and the truth found in nature, emotion, and imagination |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Was the leader of a group practicing transcendentalism |
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Henry David Thoreau |
He urges civil disobedience, which is peaceful refusal to obey laws |
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Unitarianism |
-They stress reason -appeal to the conscience in religion -they agree with revivalists/ social reform |
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Utopian Communities |
-Experimental groups trying to create a perfect place
-most utopias only last a few years |
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Shakers |
- believe men and women are equal, share goods, refuse to fight, do not marry, adopt |
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Dorothy Dix |
Prison reformer, that urged to improve the conditions for the mentally ill |
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Horace Mann |
Established teacher training and curriculum reform |
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David Walker |
Advised blacks to fight for freedom, don't wait for it |
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Frederick Douglas |
-Was taught to read by owners wife as a slave
- Escaped and was asked to lecture for the anti slavery society
- wrote the North Star, abolition through political action |
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Nat Turner |
Preacher who leads a slave rebellion that killed about 60 whites |
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Cult of domesticity |
A women should tend to the family and kids, a women's property and earnings belong to her husband |
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Seneca falls convention |
Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott hold a women's rights convention in Seneca falls |
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Sojourner Truth |
A former northern slave who traveled the country preaching, who later argued for abolition and women's rights |
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Conditions at Lowell |
Caused discomfort and illness which led to strikes |
