14 New Movements in America

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Know-Nothing Party

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political group of the early 1800s that wanted to keep Catholics and immigrants out of public office

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nativists

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people who opposed immigration

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middle class

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people who made less money than the rich, but were better off than the poor; grew significantly in the early 1800s

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tenements

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poorly designed apartments where large numbers of people lived

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transcendentalism

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the belief that people could rise above material things in life and should depend on self rather than outside authority; popular with New England writers and thinkers in the early 1800s

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A transcendentalist writer who believed that Americans should follow their own beliefs instead of listening to others.

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utopian communities

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groups of people that unsuccessfully tried to form perfect societies

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Edgar Allan Poe

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a poet and short story writer who is famous for the poem “The Raven”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Best-known poet of the mid-1800s who wrote popular story-poems like The Song of Hiawatha

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Second Great Awakening

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A revival of the Christian church during the early 1800s;

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Charles Grandison Finney

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Leader of the Second Great Awakening; Believed that the Christian should take initiative and that faith should result in deeds; His teaching sparked an increase of social reform

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temperance movement

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A reform movement that urged people to stop drinking hard liquor.

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Dorothea Dix

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Helped reform the prison system and care for the mentally ill

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Walt Whitman

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Romantic poet that praised American individualism and democracy

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Catharine Beecher

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Started an all-female school in Hartford, Connecticut

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abolition

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A complete end to slavery

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Publisher of an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator

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Frederick Douglass

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An African American leader who gave speeches and published a newspaper to show the cruelty of slavery

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Sojourner Truth

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A former slave who gave speeches about slavery and women’s rights; fiery and animated

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Underground Railroad

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A group of people that helped escaped slaves hide or travel north

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Harriet Tubman

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An escaped slave that herself became a famous leader of the Underground Railroad

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A women’s rights activist who helped plan the Seneca Falls convention

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Seneca Falls Convention

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1848 - The first public meeting about women’s rights

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Declaration of Sentiments

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A document that explained beliefs about social unfairness toward women

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Nat Turner

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1831- Led a slave rebellion that resulted in creating fear throughout the South