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Nativism | The policy of favoring people born in America over immigrants to hire for jobs |
2nd Great Awakening | A religious movement that stressed salvation was possible for everyone. It also highlighted the power of the individual. |
Dorothea Dix | Sought to reform prisons and pushed public health treatments for mentally ill patients. |
Transcendentalism | It stressed the importance of examining a person's own thoughts, emotions, and imagination. |
Catherine Beecher | Created elementary schools and pushed for mandatory education for all white, male children |
Elizabeth Stanton | Leader of the temperance movement, or the effort to ban the drinking of alcohol |
Lucretia Mott | The leader of the women's suffrage movement, or the right for women to vote. |
Utopian communities | Sought to create a perfect society by sharing equally the work and the items produced in the communities. |
American Dream | The belief that every American can work hard to get what they want. |
Abolition movement | Reform movement that sought to end slavery |