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- Oneida Community:
- utopian commune. incorporated Communalism (in the sense of communal property and possessions), Complex Marriage, Male Continence, Mutual Criticism and Ascending Fellowship
- Margaret Fuller
- a journalist, critic and women's rights activist.
- Mother Ann Lee
- a member of the Shakers; who, during the 1770s, emigrated to Watervliet, New York. She was born in Manchester, England; and died in Watervliet.
- Shakers:
- an offshoot of the Religious Society of Friends (or Quakers) that originated in Manchester, England in the early 18th century
- Mormons:
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had its origin during the early part of the nineteenth century.
Joseph Smith, the founder - Joseph Smith:
- spend the next two-and-a-half years translating the Book of Mormon into English.
- Brigham Young
- American religious leader, early head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
- Burned-Over District":
- a name given by evangelist Charles Grandison Finney to an area in western New York State in the United States of America
- American Temperance Society
- created in 1826. By 1834 the Society boasted five thousand local chapters and a national membership of one million.
- Female Moral Reform Society
- a women's organization in the Latter Day Saint movement
- Sylvester Graham:
- : preached on temperance and stressed whole-wheat flour and vegetarian diets
- phrenology:
- the study of the structure of the skull to determine a person's character and mental capacity.
- William Morton:
- responsible for the first successful public demonstration of ether as an inhalation anesthetic
- Horace Mann:
- American education reformer and abolitionist, was born in Franklin, Massachusetts
- McGuffey Reader
- central to a child’s education, not only for its content, but the way it was used to build skills.
- The "Benevolent Empire":
- A complete structure of church and parachurch organizations
- Dorothea Dix:
- ideas about psychiatric treatment to successfully lobby almost every State legislature to create asylums for the insane
- Angelina & Sarah Grimké
- were 19th Century Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights.
- Catharine Beecher:
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a very active supporter for the cause of women's education
Harriet Beecher Stowe: an abolitionist, and writer of more than 10 books, the most famous being Uncle Tom's Cabin which describes life in slavery - Louisa May Alcott
- an American novelist, best known for the novel Little Women (1868).
- Little Women:
- a novel by Louisa May Alcott published on September 30, 1868, concerning the lives and loves of four sisters
- Lucretia Mott
- the first major American women's activist in the early 1800s and is credited as the first "feminist
- Lucy Stone
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: an American suffragist, the wife of abolitionist Henry Brown Blackwell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: a social activist and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement in the United States - Susan B. Anthony
- : an American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to grant women the right to vote in the United States.
- Seneca Falls Convention:
- the first women's rights convention held in the United States, and as a result is often called the birthplace of the feminist movement.
- American Colonization Society:
- : founded a colony on the coast of West Africa — Liberia, in 1820 — and transported free black people there
- David Walker:
- a black abolitionist
- William Lloyd Garrison:
- favored an immediate end to slavery.
- The Liberator
- : an abolitionist newspaper founded in 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison
- American Anti-Slavery Society:
- founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan
- Frederick Douglass:
- the most prominent African-Americans of his time
- Harriet Tubman
- : Black Moses, was an African-American freedom fighter
- Underground Railroad:
- a network of clandestine routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states
- Amistad Case (1839
- Africans who had mutinied on a Spanish slave ship were being tried for piracy and murder on the high seas
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842):
- a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that Federal law is superior to State law, and overturned the conviction of Edward Prigg as a result
- Uncle Tom's Cabin:
- a novel by American abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme
- Liberty Party:
- succeeded in placing slavery on the national political agenda
- James G. Birney:
- an American presidential candidate for the Liberty Party
- "personal liberty" laws
- : statutes designed to prevent slave owners from reclaiming slaves who had escaped to the free states.
- "Free Soil" movement
- a position taken by northern citizens and politicians in the 19th century advocating that all new U.S. territory be closed to slavery