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second great awakening |
e Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.
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temperance |
abstinence from alcoholic drink.
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trannscendetilsm |
was a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern region of the United States. The movement was a reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality.
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civil disobedience |
is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power.
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aboltion |
the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
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american colonzaion society |
founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, New Jersey.
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underground railroad |
was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.
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suffage |
the right to vote in political elections.
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