The Americas
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- a belief that married wonen should restrict activities to their home and family
- cult of domesticity
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-at worlds anit-slavery convention
-seneca falls convention - Lucretia Mott
- a rule limitating or preventing debate on an issue
- gag rule
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(convention)
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
-300 men and women - Seneca Falls convention-
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-Isabella Boumfree
-slave first 30 years of life
-freed when NY abolished slavery (1827)
-supported abolition
-traveled and preached - Sojourner Truth
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-published An Appeal to Christian Women of the South
-Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the condition of women
-schools for women
-spoke for abolition - Angelina Grimke
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Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and Condition of Women
-schools for women
-spoke for abolition - Sarah Grimke
- movement to end slavery
- abolition
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-free black
-told blacks to fight for freedom rather than wait for freedom - David Walker
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-born into slavery
-learned to read and write
-education pathway to freedom
-ship caulker
-top wages but couldn't keep them
-escaped
-borrowed identity of free black
-NY
-liked Liberator
-sponsored lecurer of - Fredrick Douglass
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-born into slavery
-gifted preacher
-thought chosen to lead ppl out of bondage
-1831 eclipse of sun-signal for actions
-80 followers
-attacked 4 plantations
-killed 60 whites
-hid several weeks, tried, hung - Nat Turner
- freeing of slaves w/ no payment to slave holders
- emancipation
- belonging to the period before the civil war
- antebellum
- an organized effort to prevent the drinking of alcohol
- temperance movement
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-white abolistionist
-Liberator
-wants immediate emancipation - William Lloyd Garrison
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-timed marriage to go w/ husband for World's Anti-slavery Convention
-held Seneca Falls convention - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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-most famous preacher of the ers, he inspired emotionalreligious faith, using a speaking style that was as much high drama as prayer or sermon
-thought u decided own faith
-"father of modern revivalism"
-Rochester - Charles Gradson Finney
- 19th century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized along with the need for personal and social improvement
- 2nd Great Awakening
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an emotional meeting to awaken religious faith through impassioned preaching and prayer
-could last 3 or 4 days
-ppl studied the Bible and examined souls
-in evening heard vey emotional preaching - revival
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-New England writer nurtured pride in their culture
-led group practicing transcendentalism - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- a philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found living a simple live and celebrated the truth found
- transcendentalism
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-put the idea of self-reliance into practice
-built cabin and lived by himself for 2 years
-civil disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
- the refusual to ovey lawas which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a change in governmental policy
- civil disobedience
- an experimental community designed to be a perfect society in which its members could live together in harmony
- utopian communities
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-compelled by personal ezperience to join the movement for social reform
-forrifed to discover jails housed mentally ill
-1843 sent report to Ma legislature made law to improve conditions
-1845-1852 persuaded 9 southern states to set up h - Dorothea Dix
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empasized reason and appeals to conscience as the paths to perfection
-followers mostly wealthy and educated
-believed conversion was a gradual thing
-William Ellery Channing- pominent leader
-believed social and individual reform wer - unitarianism
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-Christinaity
-believed all people black or whte belonged to same god
-in south- slaves went to same churches but in diff pews
-north-different churches - African Amerian Churches
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first communities in Ny and on frontier
-believed men and women were equal
-refused to fight
-cant get married or have children
-relied on adoptions and convetrs
-1840s 6000 members
1999 only 7 - Shaker