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The Second Great Awakening
A religious revival movement that began around 1800 in the West, spreading to the masses through camp meetings and influencing more people than the First Great Awakening, particularly impacting women.
Unitarianism
A rational and optimistic offshoot of deism emphasizing human nature as essentially good, free agency, and salvation through good works, serving as a foundation for reform movements in the 1830s-1850s.
Split in Methodist/Baptist Churches—1844-1845
Division of Southern Methodist and Baptist churches from their Northern counterparts due to disagreements over slavery.
Split in Presbyterian Churches—1857
Separation of Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches in 1857 over the issue of slavery, foreshadowing the South's secession.
Charles Grandison Finney
Prominent preacher of the Second Great Awakening, known for bringing numerous converts to the church and advocating for social reform movements like abolition and temperance.
Burned-Over District
Area in western New York known for intense revival activity during the Second Great Awakening, attracting descendants of Puritans with hellfire sermons.
American Transcendentalism
Nineteenth-century literary, political, and philosophical movement emphasizing individualism, self-reliance, and moral values, led by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Renowned transcendentalist known for advocating individualism and reflecting the ideals of the individualistic republic in his lectures.
Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalist and non-conformist famous for his essay on civil disobedience, influencing figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Margaret Fuller
Influential writer and feminist advocating for women's rights and education, known for her work "Woman in the Nineteenth Century."
Walt Whitman
Celebrated poet whose work "Leaves of Grass" embodied a democratic vision and broke from traditional poetic forms.
Edgar Allan Poe
Gifted stylist known for his dark vision in contrast to the optimism of his contemporaries, more popular in Europe than America.
Herman Melville
Author of "Moby Dick," whose complex allegory of good and evil was not appreciated until later.
Utopian Communities
Experimental communities like New Harmony, Brook Farm, and Oneida, aiming for social reform through cooperative living but facing challenges like economic issues and ideological differences.
Shakers
Successful utopian community known for their devotion to simplicity, constant revelation, and egalitarianism, founded by Ann Lee and emphasizing spiritual and physical equality.
Joseph Smith & Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Founder of the Mormon Church in 1830, leading to the migration of Mormons to Utah under Brigham Young.
Brigham Young & Mormon Migration—1846-1847
Successor to Joseph Smith, leading Mormons to Utah to escape persecution.
Brook Farm
Utopian experiment led by George Ripley, aiming to combine work and intellectual pursuits, attracting members like Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author exploring morality and the struggle between good and evil in works like "The Scarlet Letter" and "The House of the Seven Gables."
Temperance
Movement advocating for moderation or abstinence from alcohol due to its perceived negative societal impacts.
Neal S. Dow
Sponsor of the Maine Law of 1851, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
The American Colonization Society/Liberia—1822
Formed to send freed slaves back to Africa, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Liberia.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion - 1831
Slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia, resulting in increased restrictions on slaves and support for fugitive slave laws.
David Walker, An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World—1829
Free black activist who published an anti-slavery pamphlet advocating for rebellion against slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison & The Liberator —1831
Abolitionist known for his inflammatory language in "The Liberator," urging for the immediate end of slavery.
American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) and Wendell Phillips
Activist branch of the Abolition Movement founded by Garrison, rejecting colonization and violence to end slavery, with Phillips as a prominent orator.
Theodore Dwight Weld
Anti-slavery preacher inspired by the Second Great Awakening, spreading the abolitionist message across the North.
American Slavery As It Is
A pamphlet written by Theodore Weld which inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Sojourner Truth
Prominent abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights.
Gag Resolution in House of Representatives—1836
Resolution requiring antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate.
Reverend Elijah P
Abolitionist editor killed defending his printing press.
Frederick Douglass
Self-educated slave turned abolitionist speaker and advocate for women’s rights.
Grimké Sisters
Southern-born abolitionists advocating for women’s rights and abolitionism.
Suffragists
Advocates for women’s suffrage including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott.
Seneca Falls, NY, Women’s Rights Convention—1848
Convention advocating for women’s rights and suffrage.
Horace Mann
Educational reformer advocating for improved schools and expanded curriculum.
Noah Webster
Author of famous dictionary standardizing American language.
McGuffey Readers
Popular textbooks emphasizing morality, patriotism, and idealism.
Emma Willard & Troy Female Seminary
Early supporter of women’s education and founder of a girls’ school.
Oberlin College, Ohio
First college to admit women along with blacks.
Mary Lyon & Mount Holyoke Seminary
Founder of women’s school providing college opportunities.
The Lyceum Movement
Educational lectures promoting learning and institutions of higher learning.
Dorothea Dix
Reformer advocating for humane treatment of the mentally ill and abolition of debt imprisonment.
National Identity Expressed in Art and Architecture
Celebration of American wilderness and Neoclassical architecture.
John James Audubon
Naturalist known for The Birds of America, inspiring the environmental movement.
Stephen Foster
White composer of popular African-American minstrel music.
Washington Irving
First American author to gain international recognition.
James Fenimore Cooper
First American novelist known for wilderness-themed books.
Absalom Jones and Richard Allen
Free blacks who objected to segregation and founded new churches.
Denmark Vesey
Former slave who planned a failed slave rebellion in Charleston in 1822.