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13862836555Transcendentalisma 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 experience0
13862836556Oneida Communitya perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, practiced communalism, complex marriage, male sexual continence, and mutual criticism1
13862840325Unitarianismthe beliefs, principles, and practices of Unitarians, any system advocating unity or centralization, as in government2
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 place3
13862844361Temperancesought to moderate or ban alcohol consumption, led Maine t become a dry state and peaked in 1919 with Prohibition, led by women4
13862846942Seneca Falls Conventionattended 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
13862846943The Liberatoran american abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Issac Knapp, most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of US history6
13862849066Abolitionista person favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or slavery7
13862853298Prigg vs Pennsylvania 1842a 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 slavery8
13862853299Liberty Partyan 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 document9
13862856790Walt Whitmana 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 seen10
13862856791Edgar Allan Poean 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 works11
13862859701Ralph Waldo Emersonamerican lecturer, poet, essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism12
13862859702Joseph Smithan american prophet and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the Book of Mormon, written in March 183013
13862861725Brigham Younga Mormon religious leader, the founder of the University of Brigham Young, and colonizer who significantly influenced the development of the American West14
13862871778Lucretia Mottpioneer reformer who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the organized women's rights movement in the United States15
13862875455John Brownan 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 system16
13862875456Frederick Douglasan escaped slave who became of the major abolitionists, spoke in england and canada about the importance of freedom for the slaves17
13862886950Uncle Tom's Cabinnovel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States in 1851 to 1852 and in book form 185218

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