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2. A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple

life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and
imagination. Among its adherents were H.D. Thoreau, R.W. Emerson, and
Theodore Parker.
5. People like Henry David Thoreau believed in the importance of
individual conscience, he urged people not to obey laws they considered
unjust. Instead of protesting with violence, they should peacefully refuse to
obey those laws. This form of protest is called... 2 words.
8. Born into slavery in 1817, this abolitionist leader had been taught to read
and write by the wife of one of his owners. He ultimately became one of the
nation's greatest orators and a champion for freedom and equality for
African-Americans.
12. These sisters were daughters of a South Carolina slaveholder but
spoke eloquently for abolition. From the 1830s through the mid-19th C.
they appealed to Christians (men and women) to overthrow this horrible
system of oppression and cruelty.
13. Before the Civil War
14. An organizer of Women's Rights activities (Seneca Falls) and
outspoken supporter of political and economic equality between the
genders in the mid-19th C.

1. This friend of R. W. Emerson put the idea of self-reliance into practice.

Abandoning community life, he built himself a cabin on the shore of
Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived alone for two
years. In Walden (1854), he advised readers to follow their inner voices.
2. The effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol and thus avoid the harmful
results of intoxication on individuals and families. 2 words
3. Much of the impulse toward reform was rooted in the revivals of the
broad religious movement that swept the United States after 1790. Goals
among the followers of this movement included individual responsibility for
seeking salvation and insisting that people improve themselves and
society. That movement was this. 3 words
4. In 1848 leaders in the struggle for Womens rights decided to hold a
womens rights convention at this location. An agenda was composed and
a detailed statement of grievances. They carefully modeled this
Declaration of Sentiments on the Declaration of Independence. The
second paragraph began with a revision of a very familiar statement: We
hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created
equal. 2 words.

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16. The call to outlaw the institution of slavery.
18. The most radical white abolitionist in the Northern States. Active in
religious reform movements in Massachusetts, he started his own paper,
The Liberator, in 1831 to deliver an uncompromising message: immediate
emancipation.
19. A system of production where manufacturers provided materials for
goods to be made at home. 2 words

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6. In the early 19th C., women faced limited options. Prevailing
customs demanded that women restrict their activities after
marriage to the home and family. Housework and child care were
considered the only proper activities for married women. This
tradition came to be known as this. 3 words.
7. Isabella Baumfree, a slave for the first 30 years of her life, took this
name when she decided to sojourn (travel) throughout the country
preaching, and later, arguing for abolition.
9. By the mid-1800s, some Americans were taking new pride in their
emerging culture. This person, a New England writer, nurtured this pride.
He led a group practicing transcendentalisma philosophical and literary
movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth
found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
10. Experimental groups who tried to create a utopia, or perfect place.
They varied in their philosophies and living arrangements but shared
common goals such as self-sufficiency.
11. The freeing of slaves, often with no other requirement to said freedom.
15. This quote is from a reform-minded leader of the mid-19th C. As a
women, she made her voice heard in a male-dominated society. "I
proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of
insane persons confined within this Commonwealth. . . . Chained, naked,
beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience! . . . Injustice is also done to
the convicts: it is certainly very wrong that they should be doomed day
after day and night after night to listen to the ravings of madmen and
madwomen."
17. He was born into slavery in 1800 in Virginia. A gifted preacher, he
chose to lead a slave uprising that could have become a full-blown
rebellion had his ~80 slave followers remained uncaptured after murdering
60 White plantation Southerners. The backlash of the White population
was bloodier than the actual rebellion.