Second Great Awakening  - A religious awakening from 1790 - 1840 that focused on individual salvation, improvement and expanded to improving or reforming social problems of society. , Abolitionist Movement - Reform movement to end slavery in the United States. , Frederick Douglass - Self-educated, escaped slave that dedicated his life to abolition. Published the "North Star", abolitionist newspaper. , Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" book that revealed the horrors of slavery and set the ground work for the Civil War. , Women's Rights Movement - Reform Movement to grant women equal rights to men including the right to vote. , Suffrage - To be able to exercise the right to vote in elections. , Quaker Religion - Religion that began in Colonial Pennsylvania and openly opposed slavery because it violated Christian beliefs in the bible.  , Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Women's Rights reformer that began her efforts after being barred from addressing male audiences in the Abolitionist Movement., Lucretia Mott - American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer that joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton. , Susan B. Anthony - American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights reformer whose work culminated in the passage of the 19th Amendment. , Dorothea Dix - Prison and asylum reformer whose efforts helped create dozens of new institutions across the United States with a focus on reform and rehabilitation. , Individualism / Self-Reliance - American beliefs that everyone should rely on on one's own power and resources rather than those of others., Hudson River School - Artistic painting style that was a backlash against industrialization/urbanization and focused on individualism, the beauty of nature and natural landscapes. , Hudson River School Artists - Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and Albert Bierstadt were early leaders in the painting style. , Battle Hymn of the Republic - Pro-Union, anti-slavery song written by Julia Ward Howe during the Civil War. , Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century., Transcendentalism - Philosophy that believes in individualism, a search for truth, beauty, justice and nature as heavenly., John James Audobon - American ornithologist who attempted to document, draw, label and describe every bird in North America. , Henry David Thoreau - Leading transcendentalist, best known for his book "Walden", a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for standing up against unjust laws. ,

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