A | B |
influential revivalist and former attorney, delivered passionate sermons | Charles G. Finney |
former Unitarian minister, leading transcendentalist | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
a style of worship meant to elicit powerful emotions to gain converts | Evangelical |
members of the Unitarian religion, which is based on the belief that God is a single divine being rather than a trinity | Unitarian |
wanted prison reform to house the mentally insane separate from other criminals | Dorothea Dix |
movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it | Temperance Movement |
19th century movement that sought an end to slavery | Abolition Movement |
a printer and leading Abolitionist | William Lloyd Garrison |
a former female slave who gave lectures, and held audiences spell bound with her powerful speech and agruments | Sojourner Truth |
married to abolitionist Henry Stanton, also interested in women's rights | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
the right to vote | Suffrage |
religious revival movement in the first half of the 1800s | Second Great Awakening |
people who follow the literary and philosophical movement based on finding spiritual reality through nature and consciousness of self | Transcendentalist |
spoke and wrote of visions he said directed him to found a new religious group | Joseph Smith |
separate settlement established with the goal of moral perfection | Utopian Community |
movement aimed at structuring prisons so that prisoners will feel penitent for their crimes | Penitentiary Movement |
person who has been freed from slavery | Freedman |
rule lasting from 1836 to 1844 that banned debate about slavery in Congress | Gag Rule |
a former slave, spoke out in lecture halls with stories about his life | Fredrick Douglas |
movement beginning in the mid-1800s in the U.S. that sought greater rights and opportunities for women | Women's Movement |
held in NY in 1848, first women's right convention | Seneca Falls Convention |
1848 NY State law that guaranteed greater property rights for women; used as a model in other states | Married Women's Property Act |
Preacher who works to renew the importance of religion in American life | Revivalist |
follower of Emerson, wrote an essay "Civil Disobedience" | Henry David Thoreau |
Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which was organized in 1830 by Joseph Smith | Mormon |
education reformer; wanted to provide all children with a better education than he received | Horace Mann |
gave worldwide lectures on alcohol abuse; Secured passage of the "Maine Law" | Neal Dow |
led a slave revolt near Richmond Virginia | Nat Turner |
when the inheritance is passed down through the female side of the family | Matrilineal |
female abolitionist who helped to found the American anti-slavery society and the philadelphia female anti-slavery society | Lucretia Mott |
a leading voice for women's rights, published a news paper called "The Lily", advocated equality of women in all things | Amelia Bloomer |