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8th Grade CBA#6

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Hudson River School Founded by Thomas Cole, first native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River
Temperance Movement A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Transcendentalism A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.
Abolitionist Movement An international movement that between approximately 1780 and 1890 succeeded in condemning slavery as morally repugnant and abolishing it in much of the world; the movement was especially prominent in Britain and the United States.
Second Great Awakening A second religious fervor that swept the nation. It converted more than the first. It also had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery.
Effects of the Second Great Awakening 1) Increased church membership 2) Worked against social injustice 3) Temperance movement (anti-alcohol)
Daughters of Temperance first women's temperance association
Women's Christian Temperance Union Women's organization founded by reformer Frances Willard and others to oppose alcohol consumption
Seneca Falls Convention Took place in upperstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.
Uncle Tom's Cabin written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853 that highly influenced England's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.
Dorthea Dix dedicated to improving conditions for the mentally ill. led movement to build new mental hospitals and improve existing ones
Frederick Douglass American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star
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