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Thedore Parker
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A distinguished Boston clergyman
described the aims of reformers of the perfectionist program
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Thomas Paine
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Wrote The Age of Reason in which the implications of deism were evident.
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William Ellery Channing
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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
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Freidrich von Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von geoth, Samuel Colridge, Thomas carlyle, William Wordsworth, Theodore Parker, george Ripley, James Freemen, henry Thoreau...
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Writer sof the romantic period
believed in intuition or spiritual insight.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Former unitarian minister
movin spirit of romanticism
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Henry Thoreau
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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
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Joseph Smith
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Founded the mormon church in 1830
claimed to recieve miraculous revelations from God
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William Miller
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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
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Reverend Charles G. Finney
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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
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Theodore Dwight Weld
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Young convert of Finney
went into west to preach and advance the cause fo moral reform
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Dorothea Dix
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The most active advocate of state-supported mental hospitals and of experiments in therapy
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Lyman Beecher
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A presbyterian clergyman who sought converts who would pledge total abstinance from alcohol
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Neal Dow
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A wealthy merchant and reformer
passed the first state law prohibitng the manufacture or sale of intoxicating beverages
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Sarah and Angelina Grimke
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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
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Elizabeth cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
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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
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