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Second Great Awakening
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a series of spiritual revivals, which encouraged many social programs like prison reform and the temperance movement. The religious groups that benefited the most were the Methodists and Baptists.
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Transcendentalism
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A philosophy that believed God existed in humans and in nature and that the intuition is the highest source of knowledge.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Philosopher and writer who became a central figure amongst the transcendentalists.
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Henry David Thoreau
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A transcendentalist and friend of Emerson who is best known for Walden. However, he also wrote "On Civil Disobedience" which advocated passive resistance.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Author who wrote Last of the Mohicans about the French and Indian War and about the nobles savages living on the wild frontier
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Herman Melville
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One of the greatest American authors who wrote Moby Dick (1851)
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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came from France to America and observed democracy in government and society. His book, Democracy in America, discusses the advantages of democracy and consequences of the majority's unlimited power.
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Joseph Smith
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The founder of Mormonism in NY in 1830 who received golden plates from an angel. The plates became the Book of Mormon. In 1844, Smith was murdered by a mob in Illinois.
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Brigham Young
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After Joseph Smith had been killed, Brigham Young led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah in 1846.
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Dorothea Dix
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a reformer who was a pioneer in the treatment of the mentally ill
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Lucretia Mott
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Quaker minister who created the Philadelphia female anti-slavery society (1833). She later helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A pioneer in the women's suffrage movement, she helped organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York (1848)
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Seneca Falls
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the first convention to discuss the role of women
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Horace Greeley
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founder and editor of the New York Tribune
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Thomas Hart Benton
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Missouri senator who opposed slavery
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Abolitionism
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attempts by people to abolish slavery
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sectionalism
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the idea that different parts of the country can and will develop different philosophies
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The Liberator
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published by abolitionist William LLoyd Garrison in Boston from 1831 to 1865 The Liberator was an antislavery newspaper
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Sojourner Truth
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a freed black woman who campaigned tirelessly for the emancipation of the slaves and for women's rights
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