13862836555 | Transcendentalism | a system influenced by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process which governs the nature of experience | 0 | |
13862836556 | Oneida Community | a perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, practiced communalism, complex marriage, male sexual continence, and mutual criticism | 1 | |
13862840325 | Unitarianism | the beliefs, principles, and practices of Unitarians, any system advocating unity or centralization, as in government | 2 | |
13862844360 | "Burned Over District" | refers to the western and central regions of New York in the early 19th century, where religious revivals and the formation of new religious movements of the Second Great Awakening took place | 3 | |
13862844361 | Temperance | sought to moderate or ban alcohol consumption, led Maine t become a dry state and peaked in 1919 with Prohibition, led by women | 4 | |
13862846942 | Seneca Falls Convention | attended by women who challenged the cultural and legal restrictions they faced, often considered the birth of the women's rights movement, "all men and women are created equal" | 5 | |
13862846943 | The Liberator | an american abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Issac Knapp, most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of US history | 6 | |
13862849066 | Abolitionist | a person favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or slavery | 7 | |
13862853298 | Prigg vs Pennsylvania 1842 | a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the federal Fugitive Slave Act precluded a Pennsylvania state law that prohibited blacks from being taken out of the free state of Pennsylvania into slavery | 8 | |
13862853299 | Liberty Party | an antislavery political organization founded in 1840, was formed by abolitionists, a minor political party in the 1840's, advocated the abolitionist movement and broke away from the American Anti-Slavery Society to advocate the view that the Constitution was an anti slavery document | 9 | |
13862856790 | Walt Whitman | a poet who wrote Leaves of Grass and had an admiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote only about events that happened in his life, or events he had seen | 10 | |
13862856791 | Edgar Allan Poe | an american short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery, "The Raven" and "The Murders in the Rue" are his important works | 11 | |
13862859701 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | american lecturer, poet, essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism | 12 | |
13862859702 | Joseph Smith | an american prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the Book of Mormon, written in March 1830 | 13 | |
13862861725 | Brigham Young | a Mormon religious leader, the founder of the University of Brigham Young, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West | 14 | |
13862871778 | Lucretia Mott | pioneer reformer who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the organized women's rights movement in the United States | 15 | |
13862875455 | John Brown | an abolitionist who was the cause for "Bleeding Kansas" and killed multiple pro-slavery people, a radical abolitionist who believed in the violent overthrow of the slavery system | 16 | |
13862875456 | Frederick Douglas | an escaped slave who became of the major abolitionists, spoke in england and canada about the importance of freedom for the slaves | 17 | |
13862886950 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States in 1851 to 1852 and in book form 1852 | 18 |
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