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What was the Seneca Falls convention

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A women’s right movement that happened in Seneca Falls, New York.

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What was the Christian attitude towards alcohol?

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Although many western religions frowned upon alcohol, Christians never deemed the consumption a sin.

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What is phrenology?

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It was a pseudo-science that focused on the relationships between the bumps and the shape of the human head.

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Leader of the Mormons led them westward away from religious persecution.

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Joseph Smith

Courtney

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Written by Harriet Jacobs

Told the sexual predations of white southerners on black women.

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Courtney

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Reform based model of incarnation that isolated individuals from another and gave them a chance to repent and reform.

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Penitentiary

Courtney

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Defended the idea of peaceful opposition by citizens to unjust government action.

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Henry David Throue civil disobedience

Courtney

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Outdoor religious revival that lasted for days.

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Religious Camp Meetings

Courtney

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Adopted a staunchly anti slavery anti annexation stance.

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Liberty party

Courtney

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Allowing people to decide for themselves weather to permit slavery in each territory

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Popular sovernty

Courtney

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Leading spokes man for educational reform.

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Horace Mann

Courtney

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Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson “Americans need to wake up reject latest fashions and discover the deeper philosophical truths found in nature”

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The American Scholar

Courtney

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Democrats who supported the Wilmer proviso resented the growing influence of southerners within their party led by Martin Van Buren.

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Free Soil Party

Courtney

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What was Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville thoughts about contemporary society?

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They all thought that the groups who participated in contemporary society were loosing their touch with nature.

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English common law doctrine that treated women as legally dead once married.

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Coverture

Olivia S.

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Reform movement that developed in response to concern over rising levels of alcohol consumption.

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Temperance

Kalyn B.

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Belief that the millennium was soon and judgement day (end time) would follow.

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Millennialism

Kalyn B.

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Literature written by Henry David Thoreau, describes impact of market on America.

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Walden

Kalyn B.

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Movement Lead by Horace Mann, which focused on universal public education and obedience.

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Common School Movement

Kalyn B.

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Who was the most forceful spokesman for immediatism and founded the newspaper “The Liberator”?

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William Lloyd Garrison

-Erin

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What was a procedural motion that required that the House of Representatives to automatically table antislavery petitions and not consider them?

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Gag Rule

-Erin

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Lydia Finney established this reform group to champion moral purity, believing prostitution was a growing problem.

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New York Female Moral Reform Society

-Erin

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Lyman Beecher

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A prominent figure in the Second Great Awakening and Temperance movements. (Bryson S.)

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What were some social reformer/utopians thought about American?

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They thought American lost touch with nature

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Where did the Mormon settle?

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Utah

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What was the treaty of Guadalupe Hildago

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The treaty that ended the Texas Mexican war.

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True or False. The Seneca Falls convention was a convention where Indians tried to gain American citizenship?

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False.

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True or False. The Liberator was was an abolitionist news paper founded by William Lloyd Garrison.

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True

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True or False. Phrenology is the study of bumps and shape of the head compared to the character of an individual.

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True

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True or False. The manifest destiny was an idea that America should spread from Mexico to Canada.

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False

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Cult of True Womanhood

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Female domestic ideals shifted in opposition to the market revolution. (Bryson S.)

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Transcendentalists

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Those who followed Transcendentalism. Ex.: Henry David Thoreau (Bryson S.)

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American Colonization Society

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Wanted to gradally send slaves to Africa. (Bryson S.)

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Southern attitudes about slavery (how/why it changed).

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Originally southerners looked at slavery as a necessary evil, but later they thought of it as a benign “peculiar institution.” (Bryson S.)

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Overland Trail

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A 2,000-mile trail to the Oregon territory. (Bryson S.)

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Created to bring country to the city and to help civilize the city’s workers and immigrants.

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Central Park (purpose) 
(Kalyn B.)
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Whig politician who helped pioneer the Common School movement.

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Horace Mann

Olivia S.

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Overland Trail

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2,000-mile route taken by American settlers traveling to Oregon, Utah and California.
(Olivia S.)

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Mormon Migration (leader)

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Brigham Young

Olivia S.

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What is the Second Great Awakening?

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Revival movement throughout the first half of the 19th century promoting religion and reform.
(Olivia S.)

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What Native American tribe was the only tribe to successfully resist the Indian Removal?

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Seminoles

Kalyn B.

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Term used by John C. Calhoun in which he used to describe slavery. He said slavery was not evil but a positive good to be championed.

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Peculiar Institution

Kalyn B.

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Bill introduced by congressman David Wilmot would have banned slavery from territories acquired from Mexico.

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Wilmot Proviso

Kalyn B.

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Many died in a battle between Mexico and America. Later known as…

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“Remeber the Alamo”

Kalyn B.

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Urban planner that created Central Park.

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Kalyn B.

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Who was the Mormon leader who moved the entire community to the West?

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Brigham Young

Olivia S.

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What were formed as a radical transformation to American society? (Bold forms of social experimentation.)

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Utopias

Olivia S.

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Who was the founder of New Harmony?

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Robert Owen

Olivia S.

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A party that brought together disaffected Democrats who support the Wilmot Proviso and resented the growing influence of southerners.

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Free Soil Party

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Texas Annexation (American Opposition)

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Opponents of slavery feared that the annexation of Texas would upset the balance between free and slave states. (Bryson S.)

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Who was in the political cartoon “Texas Coming In” waving the Lone Star flag of the Texas Republic with Stephen Austin?

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Sam Houston

-Erin

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An African-American abolitionist that founded a newspaper that applauded the actions of the Seneca Falls Convention and also urged abolitionists to embrace women’s rights alongside their opposition to slavery.

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Fredrick Douglass

-Erin

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A term coined by editor and columnist John O’Sullivan to describe his belief in America’s divine right to expand westward.

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Manifest Destiny

-Erin

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What was the source of conflict between U.S. and Mexico?

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The specific issue dividing the U.S. and Mexico was the exact boundary between Texas and Mexico.

-Erin

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What was the bill introduced by Congressman David Wilmot which would have banned slavery from the territories acquired from Mexico?

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Wilmot Proviso

-Erin

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“Mexico will poison us.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Olivia S.

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What was the most famous and influential slave autobiography?

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“Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave”

-Erin

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A women’s rights manifesto modeled on the Declaration of Independence.

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The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

-Erin

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The Wilmot Proviso and slavery defined the presidential election of?

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1848

-Erin

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Mansion of Happiness

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A board game developed by Ann Abbott in 1843 which focused on piety and domestic ideals. (Bryson S.)

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Dorothea Dix

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Sought to improve the treatment of the mentally ill, recommending that they be separated from criminals. (Bryson S.)

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Transcendentalism

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A loose set of ideals that looked to nature for inspiration. (Bryson S.)

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Millennialism

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The belief that the end was near and preparations should be made. (Bryson S.)

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Peaceful opposition by citizens against the government. Henry David Thoreau

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Civil Disobedience

Olivia S.

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Who abolished slavery in 1829?

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Mexico.

Olivia S.

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