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In 1830, Smith published what he said was an English translation of these plates, the Book of Mormon. ... Members of the church were later called "Latter Day Saints", or "Mormons", and in 1838, Smith announced a revelation that renamed the church as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Temperance movement in the United States. The Temperance movement in the United States was a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol. It had a large influence on American politics and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Founded in 1832 by outspoken abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), The Abolitionist Anti-Slavery Society of New England (AASSONE) was the first abolitionist society in the country to advocate immediate emancipation.
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Founded in 1832 by outspoken abolitionist and journalist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), The Abolitionist Anti-Slavery Society of New England (AASSONE) was the first abolitionist society in the country to advocate immediate emancipation.
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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"
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By 1870 all states had tax subsidized schools