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Transcendentalist
pushed people to use spirituality and ituition to make a better world for themseleves -
Abolitionist
individual who fought to free society of moral ill of slavery. This is the main characteristic of the second great awakening. -
Seneca Falls
National association of women's alliance fought for women's rights and for the abolishment of alcohol -
Temperance Movement
supported prohibition because it would remove the evil of alcohol from family life -
Free Soil Party
They opposed slavery in the new territories and sometimes worked to remove existing laws that discriminated against freed African American. -
Radical Republicans
Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for Reconstruction -
Populist Party
created to finally have political power and get changes made for farmers in legislation, regulate railroads and change gold standard to lower farmer debt -
Labor Unions
created to fight for better working conditions and wages for the workers during the Gilded Age -
Progressives
to promote greater government regulations of big business on the United States in order to protect consumers and producers
