slavery in the age of reform
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- transcendentalism
- a philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material (new england writers)
- emancipation
- the freeing of slaves.
- abolitionism
- the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery
- mormons
- made largest religious trek in history, church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah
- Denmark vesey
- United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)
- unitarians
- accepted all people, Christian group, did not believe in the Holy Trinity
- utopias
- reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition
- declaration of sentiments
- Women's rights "All men AND women created equal."
- Oberlin collage
- first collage to admit female students
- second great awakening
- was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of renewed personal salvation experienced in revival meetings.
- temperance
- stopping the drinking of alcohol
- shakers
- American religious sect devoted to the teachings of Ann Lee Stanley, prohibited marriage and sexual relationships
- Seneca falls convention
- Conventin held in 1848 to argue for women's rights