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Transcendentalism

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taught that the process of spiritual discovery and insight would lead person to truths more profound than he or she could reach through reason

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temperance movement

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an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption

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abstinence

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to do without

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utopian communities

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small societies dedicated to perfection in social and political conditions

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segregated

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or separated according to race

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abolitionist movement

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movement to end slavery

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emancipation movement

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or freeing of enslaved persons

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Underground railroad

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a network of escape routes that provided protection and transportation for slaves feeling north to freedom

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gag rule

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congress succedded in passing this rule which for the next eight years prohibited antislavery petitions from being read or acted upon in the House

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what started the reform movements

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the second great awakening and transcendentalism

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the reform movement was largely rooted in what?

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religious fatih

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what was the puritan belief

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that God predetermined lives and placed them in rigid social ranks

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the reforms rejected what idea

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puritn belief

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what did the reformers believe?

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God was all powerful and allowed people to make their own destinies.

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who was Charles Grandison Finney

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lawyer from new york, he was the centralist figure in the revivalist movement

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what did Charles Grandison Finney do?

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he became a presbyterian minister and spoke to audiences like he did juries, with passion and fire

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who was lyman beecher

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major revivalist from new england who wanted to evangelize west, 13 kids

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who are the three of beeches kids that are famous

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henry ward beecher, harriet beecher stowe, and catherine beecher

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who is henry ward beecher?

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famous preacher and lecturer

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who is harriet beecher stowe?

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famous antislavery activist

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who is catherine beecher

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key figure in women’s education

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raplh waldo emerson was what?

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leader of transcendentalism movement

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what did emerson do after his wife died?

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started a writing career that became known as an american renaissance in literature.

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henry David thoreau

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a focmous trnscendentlis as well, wrote walden

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what was the book walden

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a book about henry davids experiment of living alobein the woodland thinking

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why did people want to get rid of alcohol especially women

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because it made them act out in ways they normally would and women saw it as a threat to their families because of abuse and the like

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what was one big issues in reform

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schooling

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why did people want good schools

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society could not be run if people were not informed voters and morally upright citizens

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what did Horace Mann believe

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that every man had a right to an education

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why did people not like the school idea

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becuas sit raised taxes especially the people who either did not have kids or had kids in public schools, they did not like it

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what did Mnn do to better schools

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he instituted grade level so kids could learn better, installed a curriculum, and had better teacher training

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what did public schools do in mans day?

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teach kid show to behave, stand up straight, wait their turn, basically how to be a proper person

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who was dorthea dix?

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she was a person who went around and saw prisons were terrible and ended reform

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what did Dix find about prisons

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nobody from little felonies to people with muser charges were put together, mentally ill could not recover

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dix wnated reform but had a lawyer friend do it why

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because she was a women

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what did dix’s reform do

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they created separate institutions for the mentally ill so they could recover and they split up hard criminals vs soft ones

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what was one of th emost famous utopian societies?

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New Harmony in indiana

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why was a utopian society doomed from the start

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it was natural for people to have different point of views and argue, people got lazy and selfish

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david walker?

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free black man who would take clothes of sailors put pamphlet in about antislavery, and sell them to other sailors

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david walker was considered what

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a hero of the abolitionist movement

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what was one of the ways people thought slavery could end??

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recolonizatin

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what is recolonization

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sending the blacks back to africa because they would not be able to acimihlate into our culture.

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what is one example of an antislavery news paper

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The Liberator

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who was the liberator published by

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william lloyd garrison

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what did willis garrison found

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the american antislavery society

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how many people were in garrisons society

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roughly 150,000 and handed out more than 1 million pamphlets a year

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frederick dougles

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nations most influential african american abolitionist. spoke at antislavery conventions, ambassador to abraham, more in book