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271835112ATUAmerican Temperance Union- created for the limitation of the sale and consumption alcohol, 18th amendment
271835113Haystack Prayer MeetingBible studies; focused on missions
271835114LyceumTraveling organizations that sponsored public programs and entertainments; established for the purpose of improving the social, intellectual, and moral fabric of society
271835115Oberlin CollegeOne of 1st to allow women attend
271835116Romantic PeriodEra of optimistic writing w/ traditional American values
271835117Second Great AwakeningFrontier movement; circut rider ministers, ie; Ashbury, Cartwright
271835118TranscendentalismCommuning w/nature, through god's nature you find answers, tree huggers
271835119Underground RailroadFounded by Sojourner Truth, for runaway slaves for freedom
271835120UnitarianismUnity of faiths, ways of life; general concept of togetherness; acceptance of diversity, many ways to heaven
271835121Utopian SocietiesPerfect societies
271835122Women's suffrageWomen's right to vote/other rights
271835123YMCAYoung Men's Christian Association; inner city relief center
271835124Adoniram JudsonFather of American Missions
271835125Charles FinneyEvangelized Urban areas (Irish)
271835126Francis AsburyPioneered the circuit rider ministry; Christian values in Midwest
271835127Hiram BinghamMissionary introduced Christianity to Hawaiians; start American presence in Hawaii
271835128Lott CareyFather of Western African Missions; in Monrovia
271835129Matthew PerryMissionary to Japan
271835130Payson HammondLeader of Sunday School Union, P.H
271835131Peter CartwrightTraveling frontier preacher, Christian values in Mid-West
271835132Stephen Paxtonleader of Sunday School Union
271835133Townshend HarrisNegotiator of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce w/Japan
271835134Francis ParkmanWrote CA and Oregon Trail
271835135George BancroftHistorian of the U.S.
271844591Henry David ThoreauWrote Walden; lead Utopian Society Movement
271844592James Fennimore CooperWrote: Leather Stocking Tales
271844593Noah WebsterWrote: Blue Backed Speller
271844594Walt WhitmanWrote: Leaves of Grass, Captain O' Captain
271844595William Cullen BryanWrote: Thanatopsis, Transcendentalist
271844596William McGuffeyMcGuffey's Reader
271844597Elizibeth Cady StantonWomen's rights activist, co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement,E.C.S.
271844598Lucrettia MottWomen's rights activist, Quaker
271844599Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)Founded the Underground R.R.
271844600Susan B. AnthonyWomen's rights activist, co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement
271844601William Lloyd GarrisonWrote the Liberator, believed in abolition
271844602Benjamin LatrobeDesigned Capital building
271844603Gilbert StewartAmerican painter, painted many portraits of washington.
271844604Horace Mann1st Secretary of Education, Mass model
271844605Louis AgassiPaleontologist; proffessor @ Harvard

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