| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Charles Grandison Finney | Important to the Second Great Awakening; retired as a lawyer to become a preacher |
| Lyman Beecher | Opposed Finney |
| Transcendentalism | Belief that people can rise above the material things in life |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | A transcendentalist; also wrote poetry |
| Utopian Communities | Perfect Societies |
| Ann Lee | Founded Shakers |
| Thomas Cole | Painted Landscape |
| John Singleton Copley | Painted Portraits |
| George Caleb Bingham | Painted the West |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote Scarlet Letter |
| Herman Mellville | Wrote Moby Dick and Billy Budd |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Wrote The Raven and Tell-Tale Heart |
| Emily Dickinson | Wrote in slant rhyme (words don't exactly rhyme) |
| Henry Wadsworth Fellow | Wrote Courtship of Miles Standish |
| Walt Whitman | Wrote Leaves of Grass; wrote simple poetry |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | Wrote against slavery in his writings |
| Germany and Ireland | Main countries to immigrate (alphabetical order) |
| Know-Nothing Party | Nativists formed this party |
| Tenement | Dirty, overcrowded building |
| Dorothea Dix | Against the way people treated prisoners; prison reform |
| Lyman Beecher | Opposed alcohol consumption. sale, and manufacture |
| Horace Mann | Education reformer; common school movement |
| Gallaudet | School for the deaf |
| Abolition | Complete end of slavery |
| Emancipation | Enslaved African Americans are freed |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Wrote the Liberator (Abolitionist newspaper) |
| Robert Finley | Founded Liberia |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke | Two sisters that spoke out against slavery; one wrote "Appeal to the Christian Women of the South" |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped slave; very famous |
| Harriet Tubman | Formed the Underground Railroad |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | For woman's rights (E) |
| Lucretia Mott | For woman's rights (L) |
| Susan B. Anthony | For woman's rights (S) |
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