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| Second Great Awakening | 19th century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized along with the need for personal and social improvement |
| revival | a religious gathering designed to rewaken faith through impassioned preaching |
| transcendentalism | a philosophical and literary movement of the 1800's that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination |
| emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
| abolition | movement to end slavery |
| antebellum | belonging to the period before the Civil War |
| gag rule | a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue |
| cult of domesticity | a belief that married women should restrict their activities to home and family |
| temperance movement | an orgainized effort to prevent the drinking of alcholic beverages |
| Dorthea Dix | a social reformer for prisons holding the mentally ill people, she emphasized rehabilitation and treatment |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a radical white abolitionist who was an editor who called for immediate emancipation; started a paper called the Liberator |
| Frederick Douglas | born into slavery, he learned to read and write, then was able to escape, he then became a lecturer and started a paper called the North Star |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | formed a society to advocate for women's rights |
| Lucretia Mott | Quaker abolitionist who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Senaca Falls Convention | a women's rights convention held in Senaca Falls, NY, in1848 |
| Sojourner Truth | A freed slave, she became a traveling preacher dedicated to pacifism, abolitionism and equality |
