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39 Cards in this Set
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antebellum period
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period b4 civil war,reformers dedicate.to many causes
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second great awakening
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religion,
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timothy dwight
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pres.of yale college in CT.motivated yng men to become evangelical preachers.
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millennialism
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beleif by will.miller that Christ would return on a specific date.
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romantic mvmnt
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in euro.mvmnt in art,lit,stressed intuition& feelings,individual acts of heroism and study of nature.
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transcendalists
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qwstion doctrines of church. looked to mystical/intuitive way of thnkng as a means for finding ones self& looking for God in nature.
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ralph waldo emerson
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wrote"the am.scholar"urged Am.to create new Am.culture:indpdnce-thinkng,primacy of spirit.matters over material.
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henry david thoreau
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"On civil disobedience" advocate of nonviolent protest.argued to not obey unjust laws.
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brook farm;George Ripley
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protestant minister.launched communal experiment,brook farm,to acheive more natural union w/intellect&manual labor.
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margaret fuller
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feminist(advocate of women's rights)writer nd editor.
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shakers
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held property in common and kept male/females apart.forbade sex&marriage
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robert owen,new harmony
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welsh industrialist.secular exprmnt,hoped to be answer to inequity& alienation.failed due to disagreemnts/$ problem
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joseph humphrey noyes;oneida community
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idea of social and economic equality,members shared property and partners. $ by selling high qaulity silverware
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chares fourier;phalanxes
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Fr.socialist.advocate tht ppl share work,living arrangmnts to solve prob.of fierce competive society
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horace greely
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newspaprer editor
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george caleb bingham
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painter,depicted pple in common activities and places:riding riverboat,voting, doing chores
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thomas cole/frederick church
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emphasized heroic beauty of am.landscapes.and scenes on hudson river/school
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washington irving/james fenimore cooper.nathaniel hawthorne
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wrote fiction using am.settings.wrote scarlet letter-qwestiond intolerance & conformity of Am.life
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american temperance society
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used moral argumnts to have drinkers to abstain from alcohol.
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washingtonians
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recovering alcoholics,argued that alcoholism was a disease needing practical,hepful treatment.
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asylum mvmnt
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reformers looked to alleviate lot of criminals,emotionally disturbed ppl.hoped to cure antisocial behavior through mental inst.
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dorothea dix
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former school teacher. dedicated life to provide good conditions for mental ppl.led to professional treatmnt of patients in ST.
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thomas gallaudet,Dr.sam gridley.
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estb.school for deaf,estb.school for blind
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auburn systm.
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enforced rules of discipline and provided moral instruction and work programs
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horace mann
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leading advocate of public schools.wrked for improved schools,teacher prep.,longer school yr,attendance of students
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mcguffey readers
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txtbks became basis of reading and moral responsibility:hardwork,sobriety,punctiality.
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sarah,angelina grimke
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objected to male opposition to antislavery mvmnt.
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lucretia mott,elizabeth cady stanton
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campaigned for womens rights after being barred to speak at anitslavery convention
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seneca falls convention
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1st womens rights convention.issued document stating men and women are created equal.
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am.colonization society
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inst.idea of transporting freed slaves to african colony.estb.afr.am settlemnt in monrovia,liberia
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american antislavery society
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garrison nd others advocated freedom of slaves w/no compensation to slve holders.
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will.lloyd garrison,the liberator
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publshed newspaper.marks abolitionist mvmnt.
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liberty party
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pldge to bring about end of slavery by political and legal means
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frederick douglass,harriet tubman,david ruggles,sojouner truth,will.still
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black leaders/abolitionist. helped smuggle slaves to free territory in N & canada
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david walker/henry highland garnet
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2 northern black argued that slaves should take action themselves by rising up in revolt against their masters
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nat tuner
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VA slave,led revolt where 55 whites were killed.
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american peace society
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goal to abolish war
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sylvester graham
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dietary reforms,eating whole wheat bread & sylvester graham's crackers to promote good digestion
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amelia bloomer
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dress reforms,wear amelia bloomers's pantalettes instead of long skirts
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