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Reforming American Society - Chapter 8 Flashcards

To recognize the causes and effects of the Second Great Awakening and to understand the various social and labor reform movements that swept the nation during the first half of the 19th century.

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Widespread spiritual movement

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Second Great Awakening

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A religious gathering that relied on emotional sermons to awaken religious feelings

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Revival

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An important preacher in the revivalist movement

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Charles Grandison Finney

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Leading transcendental philosopher

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Philosophy that emphasized the truth to be found in nature and intuition

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Transcendentalism

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Author of Walden who practiced ideas of transcendentalism

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Henry David Thoreau

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The form of protest that calls on people to disobey unjust laws

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Civil disobedience

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Experimental communities designed to be perfect societies

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Utopian Communities

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Reformer who worked for improved treatment of the mentally ill

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Dorothea Dix

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Movement to outlaw slavery

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Abolition

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Abolitionist leader

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William Lloyd Garrison

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The freeing of slaves

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Emancipation

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A free African American who urged blacks to take their freedom by force

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David Walker

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Escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader

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Frederick Douglass

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Leader of a violent salve rebellion

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Nat Turner

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Pre-Civil War

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Antebellum

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A rule limiting debate on an issue

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Gag rule

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Social customs that restricted women to caring for the house

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Cult of domesticity

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Leader in the abolitionist movement

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Sarah and Angelina Grimké

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Movement to ban the drinking of alcohol

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Temperance movement

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Leader in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Leader in the abolitionist and women;s rights movements

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Lucretia Mott

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Convention held in 1848 to argue for women’s rights

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Seneca Falls convention

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Former slave who became an abolitionist and women;s rights activists

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Sojourner Truth

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System in which manufacturers provided the materials for goods to be produced at home

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Cottage industry

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A skilled artisan who owned a business and employed others

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Master

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Skilled worker employed by a master

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Journeyman

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A worker learning a trade or craft, usually under the supervision of a master

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Apprentice

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Work stoppages by workers

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Strike

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Early national workers’ organization

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National Trades’ Union

U.S. History I (17 decks)

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