Chapter 10 US History

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Thedore Parker
A distinguished Boston clergyman described the aims of reformers of the perfectionist program
Thomas Paine
Wrote The Age of Reason in which the implications of deism were evident.
William Ellery Channing
Pastor fo the federal Street Church in Boston most eminent Unitarian clergyman of the early nineteenth century stressed the primary responsibilities of individuals to their own consciences. blanced rationalism and tolerance with a humanistic warmth and active concern for welfare of humanity
Freidrich von Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von geoth, Samuel Colridge, Thomas carlyle, William Wordsworth, Theodore Parker, george Ripley, James Freemen, henry Thoreau...
Writer sof the romantic period believed in intuition or spiritual insight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Former unitarian minister movin spirit of romanticism
Henry Thoreau
In his famous Essay on Civil Disobedience asked whether the citizen must ever resign his conscience to the legisalture. in 1845 he built a cabin on Waldo Pond where he lived for two years
Joseph Smith
Founded the mormon church in 1830 claimed to recieve miraculous revelations from God
William Miller
A vermont Baptist preacher predicted the start of the millenium first in 1843 and then in 1844 he was WRONG led many of his Adventist followers to desrt him
Reverend Charles G. Finney
The greatest preacher of the revival in the 1820s that combined a desire to save souls with an active interest in social reform gathered his first converts from upstate New York, a land of transplanted new Englanders preached salvation through repentencefaith and the importance of good works
Theodore Dwight Weld
Young convert of Finney went into west to preach and advance the cause fo moral reform
Dorothea Dix
The most active advocate of state-supported mental hospitals and of experiments in therapy
Lyman Beecher
A presbyterian clergyman who sought converts who would pledge total abstinance from alcohol
Neal Dow
A wealthy merchant and reformer passed the first state law prohibitng the manufacture or sale of intoxicating beverages
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Members of a South carolina slave-holding family came north to join the crusade against slavery sarah also called on women to think for themselves and rise from the stereotype given to them by men
Elizabeth cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Went as delegates to a World Antislavery Convention in London, but were denied the right to participate started the first Women's rights Convention at Seneca falls, NY