| A | B |
|---|
| Charles G. Finney | the father of modern revivalism |
| revivals | mass meetings |
| 2nd Great Awakening | a religious movement emphasizing individual salvation, not predestination |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | author and founder of transcendentalism |
| Henry David Thoreau | follower of Emerson and author of Walden |
| transcendentalism | a movement emphasizing simple living and truth in nature |
| Horace Mann | founder of modern school reform |
| Dorthea Dix | champion of the mentally ill and prison reformer |
| utopian communities | New Harmony and Brook Farm are famous examples |
| abolition | a movement to outlaw slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist who published "The Liberator" |
| emancipation | freeing slaves without payment to slaveowners |
| David Walker | former slave who supported the violent overthrow of slavery in his writings |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave who gave lectures on the evils of slavery |
| Nat Turner | leader of a bloody slave rebellion in Virginia |
| gag rule | Limited the discussion of slavery in Congress from 1836-1845 |
| cult of domesticity | limited a woman's actions after marriage to housework and child rearing |
| temperance movement | a movement to outlaw alcohol |
| Seneca Falls convention | women's rights convention that produced the Declaration of Sentiments |
| putting out system | manufacturing done at home |
