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Nativism
preference for the established inhabitants of a region and a suspicion or hostility towards newcomers, xenophobia
Burned Over District
Popular name for Western New York, a region particularly swept up in the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening. Joseph Smith: Mormons
Lucretia Mott
A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848
Elizabeth Stanton
A member of the women's right's movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal."
Susan B. Anthony
social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
1848 Seneca Falls Convention/Declaration of Sentiments
"all men and women are created equal". "We hold these truths to be self-evident". Framed after the constitution
Transcendentalism
Thoreau: nonconformist, anti slavery (thrown in jail)
Emerson (Thoreau's friend): lyceum lecture; speech "The American Scholar
