| A | B |
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| Second-great Awakening | broad religious movement |
| Revivalism | religious gathereings designed to awaken religious faith through impassioned preaching |
| Transcendentalism | philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | a writer and philospher:who had fallen into religious crisis after the death of his wife |
| Henry David Thoreau | Emersons friend who put the idea of self-reliance into practice |
| Horace Mann | he was the leader of public school reform who later became the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education |
| Dorthea Dix | she was compelled by personal experience to join the movement for social reform |
| Utopian Communities | experimental groups who lived together and tried to create a "utopia" or perfect place |
| Brook Farm | one of the best utopian communities located near Boston |
| Abolition | the movement to outlaw slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | he became an editor of an antislavery paper |
| Emancipation | teh freeing of slaves |
| The Liberator | the paper that Garrison established |
| David Walker | a free black North Carolinian who had moved to Boston, urged blackes to rise up and take their freedom by force |
| Frederick Douglass | was born to slavery and had been taught to read and write by the wife of one of his owners |
| Nat Turner | a plantation slave in Virginia's Southampton County, orgainized a bloody rebellion |
| Antebellum | Pre-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 their home and family |
| Temperance Movement | the effort ot prohibit the drinking of alcohol |
| Seneca Falls Convention | a womens rights convention held in Seneca Falls, NY |
| Sojourner Truth | Isabella Baumfree took this name when she decided to sojourn (travel) throughout the country arguing for abolition |
| Strike | a work stoppage in order to force an employer to respond to demands |
| National Trades' Union | represented a variety of occupations |
| Specialization | raising one or two crops that they could sell at home or abroad |
| Market Revolution | people that bought and sold goods rather than making them for themselves |
| Capitalism | the economic system in which private buisnesses and individuals control the means of production |
| Entrepreneurs | buisness men that "undertake" invested their own money in new industries |
| Samuel F.B. Morse | a New England artist who crated the telegraph |
| John Deere | he invented the steel plow |
| Cyrus McCormick | invented the mechanical reaper |
