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This movement started in the 1790s rejected the Calvinistic belief of predestination in favor of a more democratic God?
Second Great Awakening
This philosophical and literary movement emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination?
Transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau argued that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws in this writing?
Civil Disobedience
He was the most famous preacher of the era, who used highly emotional sermons to convert people (who then had a duty to convert others)?
Charles G. Finney
A.M.E. stands for this?
African Methodist Episcopal (Church)
He was the most radical white abolitionist who was a newspaper editor that argued for immediate emancipation of slaves?
William Lloyd Garrison
This man led a revolt of slaves in 1831 that resulted in the death of about 60 white people and about 200 black people during and after the rebellion?
Nat Turner
Due to the large number of petitions and divisiveness of debates in Congress about slavery, Congress passed a ___ in 1836?
“Gag Rule”
The term for “pre-Civil War” is?
Antebellum
By 1830 approximately how many slaves were there in the United States?
2 million
The restriction that women should limit themselves to activities in the home and for the family after marriage became known as?
Cult of Domesticity
The movement to limit and prohibit the drinking of alcohol was known as the?
Temperance Movement
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 drafted and adopted this document that outlined women’s grievances?
Declaration of Sentiments
These two daughters of a South Carolina slave-owner fought for abolition and later women’s rights?
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
Isabella Van (Wagener) Baumfree traveled the country preaching and arguing for abolition and later women’s rights. What did she change her name to?
Sojourner Truth
The first major mill to be created in the US was by Francis Cabot ____?
Lowell
Between 1830 and 1860 immigration rose dramatically in the U.S. The majority of immigrants in this time period were from ___ and ___?
Germany and Ireland
In the early mills of New England (1820s) most workers were?
Young, single, women
The system of manufacturing goods prior to the factory system being developed where people worked from the home was known as the?
Cottage Industry
Artisans in the early 19 th century prior to the development of the factory system, progressed through stages as they gained experience, what were the three stages?
Apprentice journeyman master
He was a black abolitionist who had been born a slave, escaped, and established The North Star newspaper?
Frederick Douglass
This free black abolitionist argued that blacks should fight for their freedom in his Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?
David Walker
This reformer helped create public hospitals for the mentally ill in an effort to rehabilitate instead of imprison them?
Dorothea Dix
Who is considered the “father of transcendentalism”?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This utopian community believed in millernarianism, limited free love, and developed a silverware industry that outlived their community?
Oneida (Community)