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Second great awakening
spiritual fervor that resulted in prison reform, church reform, temperance movement(no alcohol), womens rights movement, abolition of slavery
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Charles Grandison Finney
the greatest revival preacher who led masssive revivals in Rochester NY
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Burned-Over District
new york, with its puritians preached "hellfire" and was known as this
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Why they disliked mormans
polygamy, drilling militia, and voting as a unit
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Primary purpose of public education
uneducated might grow up to be rabbles with voting rights
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Horace Mann
fought for better schools "father of education"
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Dorothea Dix
fought for reform of the mentally insane in her classsic petition of 1843
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WOmen's movement led by
Lucreatia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1st female medical graduate, Mergaret Fuller (femanist writer), Grimke Sisters (anti-slavery advocates), and Amelia Bloomer (semi short skirts)
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catherine beecher
thought cult of domesticity should be celebrated and women should seek employment as teacher
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Womens rights convention at seneca falls
declaration of sentiments, launched the modern womens rights movement
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declaration of sentiments
was written in the spirit of the declaration of independence saying that "all men and women are created equal"
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The knickerbocker group
Irving, Cooper, and Bryant, the first truely american literature
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Tanscendentalism
stressed individualism, self-reliance, and non-conformity
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Ralph Emerson
urded us writers throw off european traditions, wrote Self Reliance
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Henry David Thoreau
condemned slavery, wrote Walden, ON the duty of Civil Disobedience
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Lousia May Alcott
women writer, with transcendentalism wrote little women
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Emily Dickinson
women writer wrote of the theme of nature in poems
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George Bancroft
founded naval academy, published us history book, known as "Father of American History"
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Mormans move from new york to utah
led by Brigham Young to escape further persecution
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