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33 Cards in this Set
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Utopian Communities
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Groups of people that tried to form the perfect society
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American Romanticism
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Ideas about simple life and nature that inspired American painters and writers in the early - mid 1800's
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Aurhor of the "Scarlet Letter"
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Edgar Allen Poe
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famous American Poet wrote " the raven"
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Herman Melville
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Author of "Moby Dick"
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Wrote popular story poems in the 1800's such as " The midnight ride of Paul Revere"
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Second Awakening
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Second Christian Renewal movement of the late 1790's and early 1800's
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Temperence Movement
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Urged people to use self discipline to stop drinking hard liquor.
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Dorthea Dix
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Urged that mentally ill people be treated not as criminals but in hospitals.
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Horace Mann
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Leader of the fcommon school movement
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Common School Movement
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The idea that all children should be taught in a common place irregardless of their background.
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Abolition
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The movement to completely get rid of slavery
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William Lloyd garrison
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Publisher of the Liberator a Newspaper that promoted abolition of slavery
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Angelina and Sarah Grimk'e
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two sisters that promoted abolition of slavery
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Fredrick Douglass
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Escaped slave that spke out against slavery in his newspaper the North Star.
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Sojourner Truth
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Former slave that claimed that God had called her to travel and preach the truth about slavery
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Sarah Grimke
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urged that women be given equal educational opportunities
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Harriet Tubman
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Leader of the Underground railroad
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Underground railroad
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A series of safe houses and a trail where slaves escaped from the South to the North
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Seneca Falls Convention
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First public meeting about womens rights in America
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Lucretia Mott/Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Womens rights leaders/ organized the Senaca Falls Convention
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Susan B. Anthony
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Did much to turn the womens rights movement into a political movement
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Andrew Jackson
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President of the common man believed in a strong central government.
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States Righters
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Believed that the states were more powerful than the Federal government since the sttes created the federal government and had the right to choose not to obey laws of the federal government
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Henry Clay
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The Great Compromiser Helped the settle the questions of Missouri and was the creator of the Compromise of 1850 that admitted the state of California into the Country as a free state.
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Jacksonians
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Felt like Jackson had been cheated out of the election of 1824 and felt that the election of 1828 , won by Jackson, a victory for the common man.
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John C. Calhoun
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Vice President under Jackson resigned because he believed in States Rights.
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Stephen F. Austin
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Founder of the Old 300 in Texas. Pushed for the independence of Texas from Mexico.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a book that depicted the creulty of slavery . Reading convinced many Northeners that slavery must be aboloshed.
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Know Nothings
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Anti Immigaration Party.
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Whigs
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Party that supported not enfoorcing the fugitive slave act
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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Started a system in whic yung girls worked in his factory. The young ladies borded and ate in mill bording houses.
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Francis Grandison Finney
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One of the most important leaders of the Second Great Awakening - A renewed interest in Religion
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