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| 1005706247 | deism | relieved on science rather than bible, denied the divinity of christ, believed in a supreme being that created the universe | 1 | |
| 1005706248 | unitarianism | god existed only in one person, appealed to intellectuals | 2 | |
| 1005706249 | peter cartwright | traveling preacher who converted many people to christianity | 3 | |
| 1005706250 | charles grandison finney | one of the greatest revivalist preachers | 4 | |
| 1005706251 | second great awakening | religion grows in the US, lines between classes and regions widened, issue of slavery split churches apart | 5 | |
| 1005706252 | joseph smith | formed the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (mormons). led them to illinois | 6 | |
| 1005706253 | brigham young | after joseph smith was killed he led the mormons to utah to avoid persecution | 7 | |
| 1005706254 | public education | tax supported school for the young. government could controll the future of the country by instilling beliefs and values in the minds of the young. | 8 | |
| 1005706255 | horace mann | secretary of the mass board of education in MA, campaigned effectively for a better schooling system | 9 | |
| 1005706256 | southern education | first state supported universities in the south. TJ founded the University of VA | 10 | |
| 1005706257 | Emma Willard | secondary womens schools, opened Troy female Seminary | 11 | |
| 1005706258 | age of reform | gradually abolish debtors prisions, crimminal codes softened, number of capital offenses reduced | 12 | |
| 1005706259 | dorthy dix | traveled the country, visiting different asylums, her protests resulted in improved conditions for the mentally ill | 13 | |
| 1005706260 | william ladd | formed the America Peace Society | 14 | |
| 1005706261 | demon rum "old deluder" | problem of drinking found in women, clergymen, members of congress | 15 | |
| 1005706262 | temperance society | persuaded drinkers to stop drinking, because alcohalism tore down family structure | 16 | |
| 1005706263 | neal s. dow | "father of prohibition" thought that alcohol should be outlawed, supported the maine law which banned the manufacture and sale of liquor in ME. begining of prohibition | 17 | |
| 1005706264 | women revolt | women could not vote and could not retain property after they were married, therefore women actually started to avoid marriage | 18 | |
| 1005706265 | robert owen | founded the communal society in order to seek human betterment, however all untopias failed | 19 | |
| 1005706266 | american medicine | american doctors and dentists used laughing gas and anesthetics | 20 | |
| 1005706267 | dixie | battle hymn of confederates | 21 | |
| 1005706268 | american literature | after the the war of independance american liturature recieved a boost in from the wave of nationalism | 22 | |
| 1005706269 | washington irving | first american to win international recognition as a literary figure | 23 | |
| 1005706270 | james fenimore cooper | the first american novelist to gain world fame | 24 | |
| 1005706271 | transcendentalist movement | resulted from a liberalizing of the puritan theology. rejected the theory that all knowledge comes to the mind through the senses. traits: self reliance, self culture, self discipline | 25 | |
| 1005706272 | ralph waldo emerson | transcendentalist poet and philosopher; urged american writers to forget european traditions and write about american interests | 26 | |
| 1005706273 | henry david thoreau | transcendentalist who believed that one should reduce his bodily want so as to gain time for a pursuit of truth through study and meditation | 27 | |
| 1005706274 | henry wadsworth longfellow | one of the most famous poets to come from american wrote for the refined class, was adopted by the less-cultured class | 28 | |
| 1005706275 | edgar allan poe | wrote with a pessimistic tone not like the literature at the time | 29 | |
| 1005706276 | herman melville | writer of the novel Moby Dick | 30 | |
| 1005706277 | american historians | country needs to have existed independantly for quite some time for it to develop a history | 31 |
