What is it called?
Those Americans and others who opposed immigration were called these
nativists
An important transcendentalists a popular writer and thinker who argued that Americans should disregard institutions and follow theier own beliefs
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best known poet of the mid-1800s and he wrote popular story poems like The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
groups of people who tried to form a perfect society
utopian communities
A middle-class reformer who visited prisons throughout Massechusettes beginning in 1841. He reported that mentally ill people frequently were jailed with criminals
Dorothea Dix
Its members wanted immediate emancipation and radical equality for African Americans
Anti-Slavery Society
in 1849 nativists founded a politiacal orgnization supported measures making it difficult for foreigners to became citizens or hold office.
Know-nothing party
He improved the educxation and lives of people with hearing impairments. He founded the first free American school for hearing-impaired people in 1817
Thomas Gallaudet
A leader of the common school movement who in 1837 became Massachusetts's first secratary of education; He convinced teh state to double its school budget and raise teacher's salaries
Horace Mann
During the 1790's and the early 1800's, some Americans took part in a Christian renewal movement called this
Second Great Awakening
Gifted American Romantic Author who also wrote a great deal of poetry who wrote short thoughtful poemswhich were not published till after their death
Emily Dickinson
The organization that was not actually a railroad but was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives, or escaped slaves
Underground Railroad
a social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor.
middle class
An important transcendentalist who advised even stronger self-reliance and simple living away from society in natural settings
Henry David Thoreau
American Romantic Author who also wrote a great deal of poetry and who praised American individualism and democrasy in his simple unrhymed poetry
Walt Whitman
This reform effort urged people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor
Temperance movement
An important transcendentalist who edited the famous transcendalist publication THE DIAL
Margaret Fuller
In 1840 this women attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London England, whilke on her honeymoon. She discoverd that, unlike her husband, she was not allowed to participate
Elizibeth Cady Stanton
poorly designed apartment buildings that housed large numbers of people
tenements
American Romantic Author who also wrote a great deal of poetry and who was a short story writer, became famous for a haunting poem called The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
One of the most important leaders of the Second Great Awakening who after expeiriencing a dramatic religious conversion in 1821, he left his career as a lawyer and began preaching
Charles Grandison Finney
People in this wanted all children taught in a common place, regardless of background
common school movement
She started an all-female academy in Hartford, Conneticut.
Catherine Beecher
the first public meeting about the women's rights held in the United States
Seneca Falls Convention
the belief that people could rise above material things in life and it was making yourself a god and it was wicked
transcendentalism
a New England writer who wrote THE SCARLET LETTER during the mid 1800's
Nathaniel Hawthrone
a traditional minister who wanted to prevent Finney from preaching his version of salvation.
Lyman Beecher
the complete end in slavery.
Abolition
Another former slave who also contributed to the abolitionist cause. She claimed God had called her to travel throughht the UNited States and preach the truth about slavery and women's rights
Sojouner Truth
These two white southern sisters were anti-slavery activists of the 1830's and they came from a South Carolina slaveholding family but disagreed with their parents support of slavery
Angelina and Sarah Grimke
This document detailed beliefs about social injustice toward women
Declaration of Sentiments
He escaped from slavery when he was 20 and went on to become one of the most imporant african american leaders of the 1800s.
Frederick Douglass
He published and abolitionist newspaper called the Liberator beginning in 1831
William Lloyd Garrison
she brought strong organizational skills to the women's tights movement and she did much to turn for the fight for women's rights into a political movement
Susan B. Anthony
She was the most famous and daring conductor of the underground railroad. When she escaped slavery in 1849, she left behind her family. She swore that she would return and lead her whole family to freedom in the North. She returned to the south 19 times, successfully leading her family and more that 300 other slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
She wanted to change the treatment of women abolitionists at the convention, and so she planned to form a society with Stanton to advance the rights of women.
Lucretia Mott