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second great awakening
a chance of Christian renewal -
Thomas Gallaudet
improved the education and lives of people with hearing impairments. founded the first free American school. -
Catharine Beecher
started an all-female academy in Hartford Connecticut -
Charles Grandison Finney
important leader in the second great awakening...expirenced a religious conversion -
American Romanticism
inspired painters and writers to paint or write about a simple life and nature. -
American Anti-Slavery Society
wnated immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans--founder William Lloyd Garrison -
alcohol problems
America consumed seven gallons of alcohol a year -
temperance movment
reformed that urged people to use self discipline to stop drinking hard liquor -
Oberlin College
first college to accept African Americans -
common school movemnet
wanted all children taught in a common place regardless of background -
Horace Mann
became first secretary of education in Massachusett's -
Dorothea Dix
visited prisons judged how some people should be in the same jail with certain people middle-class reformer -
nativists
Americans and other who opposed immigration -
Seneca Falls Convention
the first public meeting about women's rights held in the united states -
Know nothing party
nativits founded a political organization that supported measures making it difficult for foreigners to become citizens or hold office -
Boston health committee
reported that low wadges forced most Irish immigrants to live in poor housing