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| 7457972189 | American Temperance Society | Founded in Boston in 1826 as part of a growing effort of nineteenth-century reformers to limit alcohol consumption. | 0 | |
| 7457972191 | Burned-Over District | Popular name for Western New York, a region particularly swept up in the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening. | 1 | |
| 7457972192 | Deism | Eighteenth century religious doctrine that emphasized reasoned moral behavior and the scientific pursuit of knowledge. | 2 | |
| 7457972195 | Hudson River school | American artistic movement that produced romantic renditions of local landscapes. | 3 | |
| 7457972196 | lyceum | Public lecture hall that hosted speakers on topics ranging from science to moral philosophy. Part of a broader flourishing of higher education in the mid-nineteenth century. | 4 | |
| 7457972197 | Maine Law of 1851 | Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol. A dozen other states followed Maine's lead, though most statutes proved ineffective and were repealed within a decade. | 5 | |
| 7457972198 | minstrel shows | Variety shows performed by white actors in black-face. First popularized in the mid-nineteenth century. | 6 | |
| 7457972199 | New Harmony | Communal society of around one thousand members, established in Indiana by Robert Owen. The community attracted a hodgepodge of individuals, from scholars to crooks, and fell apart due to infighting and confusion after just two years. | 7 | |
| 7457972200 | Oneida Community | One of the more radical utopian communities established in the nineteenth century, it advocated "free love," birth control, and eugenics. Utopian communities reflected the reformist spirit of the age. | 8 | |
| 7457972201 | Romanticism | Early-nineteenth-century movement in European and American literature and the arts that, in reaction to the hyper-rational Enlightenment, emphasized imagination over reason, nature over civilization, intuition over calculation, and the self over society. | 9 | |
| 7457972202 | Second Great Awakening | Religious revival characterized by emotional mass "camp meetings" and widespread conversion. Brought about a democratization of religion as a multiplicity of denominations vied for members. | 10 | |
| 7457972203 | Shakers | Named for their lively dance worship, they emphasized simple, communal living and were all expected to practice celibacy. | 11 | |
| 7457972205 | The American Scholar | Ralph Waldo Emerson's address at Harvard College, in which he declared an intellectual independence from Europe, urging American scholars to develop their own traditions. | 12 | |
| 7457972206 | transcendentalism | Literary and intellectual movement that emphasized individualism and self-reliance, predicated upon a belief that each person possesses an "inner-light" that can point the way to truth and direct contact with God. | 13 | |
| 7457972207 | Unitarians | Believe in a unitary deity, reject the divinity of Christ, and emphasize the inherent goodness of mankind. Unitarianism, inspired in part by Deism, first caught on in New England at the end of the eighteenth century. | 14 | |
| 7457972208 | Seneca Falls Convention | Gathering of feminist activists where Elizabeth Cady Stanton read her "Declaration of Sentiments," stating that "all men and women are created equal." | 15 |
