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Revivalism | Also known as Second Great Awakening |
Unitarian | Religious movment that used reason to preach |
Transcendentalism | Philosophical and literary movement athat emphazised living a simple life |
Henry David Thoreau | Follower of Emerson who built a cabin by Walden Pond |
Horace Mann | Leader of educational reform |
Dorothea Dix | Visited jails and promoted social reform |
Utopian | Experimental groups who lived together and tried to create a perfect place |
Abolitionist | People in the North who spoke out against the evils of slavery |
William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who wanted immediate emancipation |
Fredrick Douglass | Former slave who started The North Star |
Nat Turner's Rebellion | 1831 slave rebellion that left 200 slaves dead |
Temperance Movement | an effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Organized a Women's Convention in New York |
Sojourner Truth | Former slave who spoke at a women's convention in Ohio |
Susan B. Anthony | Leader of the Women's Rights Movement |