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5488594022Second Great AwakeningA series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance.0
5488594023Mormonschurch founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, religious group that emphasized moderation, saving, hard work, and risk-taking; moved from IL to UT1
5488594024Joseph Smithreligious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 18302
5488594025Brigham YoungUnited States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith. Led the Mormons to Utah3
5488594026Romanticisma movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization. Valued imagination and emotion over reality4
5488594027Transcendentalisma nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.5
5488594028Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. Wrote "self reliance", which was very popular.6
5488594029Henry David ThoreauAmerican transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.7
5488594030Brook FarmAn experiment in Utopian socialism, it lasted for six years (1841-1847) in New Roxbury, Massachusetts.Founded by George Ripley8
5488594031Shakersutopian group that splintered from the Quakers, believed that they and all other churches had grown too interested in this world and neglectful of their afterlives; no sex9
5488594032Oneida CommunityA group of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in New York. Practiced polygamy, communal property, and communal raising of children.10
5488594034Thomas ColeFounder of the Hudson River school, famous for his landscape paintings11
5488594035Frederick Churchan American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters12
5488594036Hudson River SchoolFirst native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River13
5488594039Nathanial Hawthornewrote The Scarlet Letter about a puritan adulteress; he also wrote about the concepts of evil, sin and death14
5488594040Temperancerestraint or moderation, especially in regards to alcohol or food15
5488594041Dorothea Dixreformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better treatment of the mentally ill16
5488594042Horace MannUnited States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)17
5488594043McGuffey ReaderWritten by influential Ohioan William McGuffey, a powerful teacher-preacher. McGuffey's Readers hammered home lasting lessons in morality, patriotism, and idealism.18
5488594044Grimke Sisterswere 19th-century American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights.19
5488594045Lucretia MottQuaker activist in both the abolitionist and women's movements; with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was a principal organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.20
5488594046Elizabeth Cady StantonA prominent advocate of women's rights, Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott21
5488594047Seneca Falls Convention(1848)First women's rights convention in American History. Issued "Declaration of Sentiments"-declared "all men and women are created equal" and listed women's grievances against laws and customs that discriminated against them.22
5488594048Susan B. Anthonysocial reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation23
5488594049William Lloyd Garrison1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.24
5488594050The LiberatorAn anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.25
5488594051Frederick Douglassrunaway slave, well-known speaker on the condition of slavery, worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips, founder of The North Star26
5488594052Harriet TubmanUnited States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North27
5488594053Sojourner Truthformer slave who escaped and became an abolitionist and women's rights activist28

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