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33 Cards in this Set
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Who was the trapper and explorer who was kidnapped by Native Americans and later made a chief? |
Jim Beckwourth |
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Who was the preacher who urged his congregation to be "filled with the Spirit of God"? |
Charles Finney |
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Who was the founder of the Mormon religion? |
Joseph Smith |
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Who was the abolitionist who spoke out against slavery and published "The Liberator"? |
William Lloyd Garrison |
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Who was a major reformist who helped reform American prisons and treatment of the mentally-ill? |
Marcus Whitman |
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Who was a former minister who was a central figure in the transcendentalism movement? |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Who was a former slave who became a major abolitionist and started the "North Star" newspaper? |
Frederick Douglass |
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Who aided in the reform of the American public schools and education system? |
Horace Mann |
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Who was a writer who helped lead the movement for women's rights mostly by writing speeches? |
Elizabeth Stanton |
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President ______________ established and sent off an exploration team in 1804 to explore the western territory. |
Thomas Jefferson |
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The time period in which people were taught that "all" people could be saved and that doing good deeds could get you into heaven was known as the _____ ________ ____________. |
Second Great Awakening |
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Henry David Thoreau was a major influencer during the __________ movement which said that everyone should listen to what they believed as an individual and to not ________ to what others wanted you to believe or said you should believe |
individualism conform
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Thoreau eventually practiced what he preached and moved into a _______ Community where he later wrote about his experiences in a 6,000 page journal known as "Life in the Woods". |
Model |
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________________ were people who wished to end slavery and acted out against it openly. |
Abolitionists |
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A women named Sojourner ________ stood up at a meeting led by men and spoke out boldly against the mistreament of African Americans and women. |
Truth |
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In 1831, members of the Nez Perce tribe came to St. Louis and asked them to send people to their tribe to teach them the secrets of The Black Book, this book was also known as the ______. |
Bible |
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On July 19, 1948, nearly 300 people, including 40 men, arrived for the _____________ convention in order to gather in support of women's rights. |
Seneca Falls |
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Men who traveled to California in search for gold at the beginning of the Gold Rush were nicknamed _______ because of the year in which they traveled there. |
49 ers |
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At the convention, the supporters put together a formal statement of injustices suffered y women which was known as the Declaration of ______________. |
Sentiments |
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Because Elizabeth Stanton was not comfortable speaking publicly, she later gained help from _________ B. ________ to take her written speeches and to speak them or her. |
Susan Anthony |
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Angelian Grimke was a activist who spoke out against _______ who eventually had stones thrown at her and burned the building she spoke in, but she kept speaking. |
slavery |
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Prudence Crandall helped with the reform of _____________ but was eventually forced to stop |
girl's school |
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What does it mean to conform? |
to obey established rules and patterns |
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Which river did the Lewis and Clark Expedition first travel up in their journey West? |
The Missouri |
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What was the name of the Native American that Lewis and Clark stated were "..the most hospitable, honest and sincere people that we have met with in our voyage? |
Nez Perce |
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Define "reform" |
to change in order to improve things |
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What is a "rendezvous"? |
a get-together |
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What were the major differences between the 1st and 2nd Great Awakening? |
Limited atonement versus unlimited atonement Limited atonement means only the "elect" are saved Unlimited atonement means anyone can be saved. |
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How did the false teaching of being saved by doing good deeds effect the Reformation period in America? |
Everyone started doing good deeds because they all wanted to go to heaven. |
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Why was Transcendentalism such a big change from what people originally believed? |
Everyone was starving to do what they believed in. They also didn't want to repeat history. |
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Why did the followers of the Mormon religion decide they needed to move out West in order to settle? |
They had a new leader and he thought it would be better if they moved to the west. Mostly because of the Gold Mountain and persecution. There was gold there. |
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As gold in California was getting harder to find, what did the American government do in order to drive foreigners, more specifically the Chinese out of America? |
The government raised taxes and cut off the braids of the hair. |
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When the movement of women's right to vote became more and more popular, what did Frederick Douglass argue should also happen? |
Black people should also be able to vote and mostly women. |
