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Transcendentalism
philosophical movement of the mid-1800s that emphasized spiritual discovery and insight rather than reason
Charles Grandison Finney
An important preacher in the revivalist movement
Second Great Awakening
Protestant spiritual movement that spread through America
Revival
a religious gathering that relied on emotional sermons to encourage religious feelings
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leading transcendentalist philosopher and well-known writer
Henry David Thoreau
Author of Walden who practiced ideas of transcendentalism
Civil Disobedience
The form of protest that calls on people to disobey unjust laws
Dorothea Dix
Reformer who worked for improved treatment of the mentally ill
Utopian community
a small society dedicated to perfection in social and political conditions
Abolitionist movement
movement to end slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Abolitionist leader and founder of the newspaper The Liberator
David Walker
A free black slave who urged blacks to take their freedom by force
Frederick Douglass
Escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader
Nat Turner
Leader of the most violent slave rebellion in the South
Emancipation
freeing of enslaved people
Gag rule
1836 rule prohibiting anti slavery petitions from being read or acted upon
Antebellum
the name for the Pre-Civil War era
