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Who is Joseph Smith?
Founder of the Mormon Church.
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What is abolition?
Sought to end slavery.
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What are Baptists and Methodists?
The two denominations that grew significantly in numbers during the 2nd Great Awakening.
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What is Massachusetts?
The state where education reform really started.
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Who is Frederick Douglass?
This former slave supported women's rights as well as abolition.
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What is temperance?
Sought to end drinking of alcohol
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What is missionary work?
This work involved traveling abroad to convert others to Christianity and increased in the 2nd G.A.
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What is industrialization?
This event led to new issues such as dangerous working conditions and poor living conditions.
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Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Ardent northern abolitionist and editor of The Liberator.
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What is women's suffrage?
The number one goal of women's reformers at the time.
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What is the "feminization of religion?"
Concept describing an increase in valuable female spiritual worth -- led to more middle class women participating in church life, leading reform movements as well.
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What is the American Temperance Society?
The name of the major temperance organization formed.
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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
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What are common schools?
These were largely the first primary and secondary public education institutions.
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What is predestination?
The concept from the First Great Awakening that one's salvation was determined before they were born (which changed in the Second Great Awakening).
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What is the Amistad?
Slaves overtook this ship and then won their freedom in a SCOTUS case.
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Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Largely behind the women's rights movement and their first convention.
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What is "The Declaration of Rights & Sentiments?"
The document published at the Seneca Falls Convention
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What is the "Burned Over District?"
The area of NY that saw so many revivals it was said that many souls were set on fire and thus called this.
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What is Liberia?
This African country was founded to return freed slaves to Africa.
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