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7876269538AbolitionistsPeople who advocated for the abolition of slavery. Used fierce arguments and violence, and helped slaves escape the South.0
7876269539American Colonization SocietyGroup formed by prominent white Virginians that worked carefully to challenge slavery without challenging property rights or southern sensibilities.1
7876269540AmistadSpanish slave vessel whose legal battle was founded in part by moderate abolitionists and Garrisonians.2
7876269541Anti-AbolitionismMainly made up of white southerners, but even many northerners did not support abolition. Some members resorted to violence.3
7876269542Charles Grandison FinneyPresbyterian revival preacher who became an evangelist after a moving conversion experience. Denounced alcohol and slavery. Eventually became president of Oberlin College in Ohio, a hotbed for revivalist and abolitionist activity.4
7876269543David WalkerBlack abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves, a bloody end to white supremacy, and for slaves to physically revolt.5
7876269544Edgar Allen PoeLived a short and unhappy life, and produced stories and poems that were primarily sad and macabre. Later works including the famous "The Raven" established him as a major, if controversial, literary figure.6
7876269545Elizabeth Cady StantonSuffragette who helped organize the Seneca Falls convention and co-founded the National Women's Suffrage association with Susan B. Anthony.7
7876269546FeminismMovement beginning in the 1830s that focused on the acquisition of equal rights for women.8
7876269547Frederick DouglassFamous abolitionist and writer; escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and advocate.9
7876269548Fugitive Slave LawProvided for the return of escaped slaves to their owners. The North was lax about enforcing the 1793 law, so Southerners made sure the 1850 law was tougher.10
7876269549Harriet Beecher Stowe...11
7876269550Henry David Thoreau...12
7876269551Herman Melville...13
7876269552Horace Mann...14
7876269553Hudson River School...15
7876269554Indian Reservation...16
7876269555James Fenimore Cooper...17
7876269556Joseph Smith...18
7876269557Lucretia Mott...19
7876269558Margaret Fuller...20
7876269559Nathaniel Hawthorne...21
7876269560Protestant Revivalism...22
7876269561Public Education...23
7876269562Ralph Waldo Emerson...24
7876269563Sarah and Angelica Grimke...25
7876269564Seneca Falls Convention...26
7876269565Shakers...27
7876269566Susan B. Anthony...28
7876269567Temperance Crusade...29
7876269568Transcendentalism...30
7876269569Utopian Societies...31
7876269570Walt Whitman...32
7876269571William Lloyd Garrison...33
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