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The religion of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. After Smith's death at the hands of an angry mob, Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah in 1846.

A term used by historians to describe the nineteenth-century view that men and women have different gender-defined characteristics and, consequently, that men should dominate the public sphere of politics and economics, while women should manage the private sphere of home and family.

Communities founded by reformers and transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society.

Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830, in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism.

Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred.

The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s

An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North.

A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson's ideas on the liberation of the individual.

A term for racial mixing and intermarriage, almost universally opposed by whites in the nineteenth-century United States

A nineteenth-century intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses. Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality, self-reliance, and nonconformity.

Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes, castes, associations, and families.

A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate.

Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own, inherit, and bequeath property.

A term referring to the assertion by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other female abolitionists that traditional gender roles and legal restrictions created a form of slavery for married women.

A system of social and economic organization based on the common ownership of goods or state control of the economy.

The first women's rights convention in the United States. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.

American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.

American philosopher who believed in civil disobedience

explored possibilities of freedom for women and embraced Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas of transcendentalism

"Poet, transcendentalist, and editor of ""Brooklyn Eagle"". Also an influential publicist for the Democratic Party"

Author of Moby Dick and critic of transcendentalism

Slave that started a revolt in Virginia. The revolt resulted in the killing of women and children and eventually the hanging of Nat Turner

Determined abolitionist who started the liberator newspaper

Worked to improve treatment of the mentally I'll and was appointed superintendent of women nurses for the union during the civil war

organized the Seneca Falls Convention which emphasized the egalitarian ideology

Joined the women's rights movement and worked closely with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Campaigned for women's rights, temperance, and was an abolitionist