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10 Cards in this Set
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Charles Finney
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Preacher who preached that only dedicated Christians could bring changes to eliminate evil on earth.
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Horace Mann
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Thought both men and women should be educated
Instrumental in forming the public school system |
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Dorthea Dix
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Helped reform prisons from punishment institutions to rehabilitation institutions
Led effort to have mentally ill housed in different establishments than hardened criminals |
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Fredric Douglas
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Leader of the Abolitionist Movement
He was once a slave, but escaped. |
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Grimke Sisters
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became Quakers and preached Peace
Pacifism and equality |
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Noah Webster
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credited for the dictionary containing the first classification of American word meanings and usage
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Oneida
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religious and social utopia.
Second Great Awakening |
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Seneca Falls Convection
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First women’s rights convention,
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, Sojourner Truth |
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William L. Garrison
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wrote antislavery newspaper the “Liberator”
Published “Walker’s Appeal” in 1831 |
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Henry David Thoreau
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”Walden” celebrates nature and individualism.
Thoreau was also sent to jail for refusing to pay his taxes during the Mexican War— this was a type of “Civil Disobedience” Writers Celebrate the American Way of Life |
