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the 2nd great awaking reversed the trends toward______ and_____.
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religious indifference and rationalism
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many early american reformers were...
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middle-class idealist inspired by evangelical prostestantism
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the mormon church migrated to utah to__..
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escape persecuting and establish a tightly organized cooperative social-class order w/o persecution
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the common public school aimed at the goal of__
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educating all cirizebs for participation in democary, without regard to wealth
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the key role of womenin american reform movements was___..
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undergirded by a growing "feminization" of the churches that spawned many efforts at school improvments
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a major demand put forward by the advanced women's-rights advocates was__
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women's suffrage
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early american science was stornger innn_______
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biology, botany, and geology than basic theoreical science or medicine
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leaves of grass by walt whitman revealed
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his love of democracy, and frontier,and the common people
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"burned-over district" refers to
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the region of western New York State the experenced especally frequent and intense revivals
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the 2nd great awakening derived its reigious strength especially from
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the popular preaching of evangelical revivalists in both the west and eastern cities
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2 denominations that especially gained adherents among the common people of the west and south were
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methodists and baptists.
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the tendency toward rationalism and indifference in regligion was reversed about 1800 by
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the revivalist movement called the 2nd great awakening
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the major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churcches was
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the split of baptists, methodists, and prebyterians into separate northern and southern churches
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besides their prectice of polygamy, the mormons aroused hostility from many americans because
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their cooperative economic practice that ran contrary to american economic individualism
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the major promoterof an effective tax-supported system of the public education for all american children was
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horace mann
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reformer dorothea dix worked for the cause of
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better treatment of the mentally ill
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Noah Webster
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"schoolmaster of the republic"
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William H. McGuffey
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a teacher-preacher of rare power. sold 122 million copies of McGuffey's Readers which hammered home lasting lessions in morality partiotism, and idealism
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womens higher education was frown upon because
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a womens place was believed to be in the home
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Professer Louis Agassiz
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french swisss immigrant, insisted on orginal reserch and deplored the reigning overemphasis on a memory work
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sylvester graham
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created the whole-wheat bread and crackers
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john humphrey noyes
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made complex marriage
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gilbert stuart
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produced several portaits of washington
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charles willson peale
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painted sixty portraits of washingtion
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John Trumbull
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who had fought in the revolutionary war, recaptured its scenes and spirit on scores of striking canvases
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stephen C. foster
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made a valuable contribution to american folk music by capturing the planintive spirit of the slaves
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the knickerbocker group
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blazed brilliantly acrossed the literary heavens, thus enabling america for the first time to boast of a liiterture to match its magnificent landscapes
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washington irving
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published Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Sketch Book, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleeply Hollow".
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james fenimore cooper
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wrote Leather stocking tales, and The Last of the Mohicans
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the three krinckerbockers
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Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant
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transcendentalism
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Truth, rather, "transcends" the sense: it cannot be found by observation alone. every person possesses an inner light that can illuminate the highest truth and put him or her in direct touch with god, or the "Oversoul"
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Best known of the transcendentalists
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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emersons close associate
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Henery David Thoreau
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walt Whitman
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wrote the famous collection of poems Leaves of Grass
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Edgar Allan Poe
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a master stylist, he also excelled on short story, especially of horror type, in which he shared his alchohlic nightmares
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moby dick
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the great but commercially unsuccessful novel about captain Ahab's obsessive puresuit era
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little women
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the materpiece of new england wirter Louisa May Alcott
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George Bancroft
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known as the "father of american history"
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John J. Audubon
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painted birds in their natural habitat. he magnificently illustrated Birds of America
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antebellum period
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the period before the civil war
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the scarlet letter
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a disturbing new england masterpiece about aduktery and guilt in the old puritan era
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two leading female imaginative writers who added to New England's literary prominence were
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Louisa may alcott and emily dickson
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many of the american utpain experiments of the early 19th century focused on
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communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements
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seneca falls convention launched the modern women's rights movements with its call for
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equal rights, including the right to vote
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one cause of women's subordination in the 19th century americ was
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the sharp division of the labor that separated women at home form men in the workplace
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