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history chapter 8
Term | Definition |
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Charles Grandison Finney | religious speaker, traveled by horse back to deliver message. |
Second Great Awakening | religious movement that swept nation after 1790 |
revival | emotional meeting to bring religious faith that lasts four to five days |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | New England writer |
Transcendentanlism | philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life. |
Henry David Thoreau | abandoned the community, built cabin on shore on pond, lived alone for two years. |
Civil disobedience | form of protest |
utopian community | experimental groups who tried to create a perfect living place |
Dorothea Dix | passed law aimed at improving conditions for mentally ill |
abolition | |
William Loyd Garrison | radical white abolitonist |
emancipation | the freeing of slaves |
David Walker | free black, advised for slaves to fight for freedom |
Fredrick Douglass | born into slavery, taught to read and write. |
Nat Turner | |
antebellum | pre-civil war South |
gag rule | limiting debate on an issues |