5488594022 | Second Great Awakening | A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance. | 0 | |
5488594023 | Mormons | church 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 UT | 1 | |
5488594024 | Joseph Smith | religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830 | 2 | |
5488594025 | Brigham Young | United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith. Led the Mormons to Utah | 3 | |
5488594026 | Romanticism | a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization. Valued imagination and emotion over reality | 4 | |
5488594027 | Transcendentalism | a 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 | |
5488594028 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. Wrote "self reliance", which was very popular. | 6 | |
5488594029 | Henry David Thoreau | American 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 | |
5488594030 | Brook Farm | An experiment in Utopian socialism, it lasted for six years (1841-1847) in New Roxbury, Massachusetts.Founded by George Ripley | 8 | |
5488594031 | Shakers | utopian 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 sex | 9 | |
5488594032 | Oneida Community | A group of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in New York. Practiced polygamy, communal property, and communal raising of children. | 10 | |
5488594034 | Thomas Cole | Founder of the Hudson River school, famous for his landscape paintings | 11 | |
5488594035 | Frederick Church | an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters | 12 | |
5488594036 | Hudson River School | First native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River | 13 | |
5488594039 | Nathanial Hawthorne | wrote The Scarlet Letter about a puritan adulteress; he also wrote about the concepts of evil, sin and death | 14 | |
5488594040 | Temperance | restraint or moderation, especially in regards to alcohol or food | 15 | |
5488594041 | Dorothea Dix | reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better treatment of the mentally ill | 16 | |
5488594042 | Horace Mann | United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859) | 17 | |
5488594043 | McGuffey Reader | Written by influential Ohioan William McGuffey, a powerful teacher-preacher. McGuffey's Readers hammered home lasting lessons in morality, patriotism, and idealism. | 18 | |
5488594044 | Grimke Sisters | were 19th-century American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights. | 19 | |
5488594045 | Lucretia Mott | Quaker 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 | |
5488594046 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A prominent advocate of women's rights, Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott | 21 | |
5488594047 | Seneca 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 | |
5488594048 | Susan B. Anthony | social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation | 23 | |
5488594049 | William Lloyd Garrison | 1805-1879. 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 | |
5488594050 | The Liberator | An 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 | |
5488594051 | Frederick Douglass | runaway slave, well-known speaker on the condition of slavery, worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips, founder of The North Star | 26 | |
5488594052 | Harriet Tubman | United 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 North | 27 | |
5488594053 | Sojourner Truth | former slave who escaped and became an abolitionist and women's rights activist | 28 |
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