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A-PUSH Ch:8-9
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History
11th Grade
11/06/2006

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middle class
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included prosporous artisans farmers lawyers ministers shopkeepers and their families
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factory system
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machines doing everything under 1 roof to increase costs and increase output
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strike
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refusal to work until employers met union demands
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nativism
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favoring native-born Americans over the foreign born
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Francis Cabot Lowell
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designed and constructed a power loom for textiles
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Lowell Girls
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group of single women who worked in factories and lived together in company owned boardinghouses
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John Deere
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blacksmith from Illinois; designed a light but strong steel plow
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Cyrus McCormick
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developed a mechanical reaper taht harvested 6 acres of grain in a day
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Elias Howe
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patented a sewing machine for the home
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Sarah G. Bagely
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organized the Lowell Female Reform Association after production sped up with no wage rasies
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Know-Nothings
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memebers of the American Party who would reply "I know knothing" when asked about their nativist activists
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cotton gin
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made it easier to seperate seeds from short-staple cotton balls
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antebellum
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pre civil war
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yeoman farmers
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small landowning farmers who made up the majority of southern white society
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Eli whitney
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invented the cotton gin
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Tredegar IronWorks
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one of the nations largest and best equipped ironworks; operated with slaves
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William Ellison
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slave who learned how to make cotton gins
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overseers
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small farmers, workers or planters younger sons who managed slaves
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drivers
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assistants picked from among the slaves
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gang labor
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slaves organized into work crews with drivers as foreman
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spirituals
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haunting songs
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Gabriel Prosser
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led rebellion in Richmond
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denmark Vesey
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prosperous free African American carpenter and preacher; slave uprising in Charleston; didn't succeed
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Nat Turner
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led violent rebellion in VA; killed master and 60 whites
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Underground Railroad
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network of white and African American abolitionists who helped slaves escap to freedom in North/Canada
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Harriet Tubman
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led African Americans to North; 19 trips/300 people
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revivals
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large religious gatherings
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denominations
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religious groups
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utopias
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communities designed to create a perfect society
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transcendentalism
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belief that people can rise above material things and reach higher level of understanding
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Second Great Awakening
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1790; renewed and passionate interest in religion
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Richard Allen
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founder of 1st African American church in Philadelphia
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Shakers
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United Society of Believers in Christ's 2nd Appearing; shook during worship
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Ann Lee
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leader of the Shakers
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Mormons
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memebers of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Brigham Young
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led thousands of Mormons across the Rocky Mountains; settled in Great Salt Lake Valley
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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father of transcendentalism
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Henry David Thoreau
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N.E. intellectual; transcendentalist
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Unitarians
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memebers of a religious reform movement that originally arose among NE Protestants in late 1700s
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temperance movement
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a social reform effort; 1800s to encourage people to limit alcohol consumption
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prohibition
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complete ban on manufacture sale and comsumption of alcohol
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rehabilitation
Definition
treatment to restore mentally ill to a useful and productive place in society
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rehabilitation
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treatment to restore mentally ill to a useful and productive place in society
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penitentrary
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isolated and structured environment for criminals intended to reform them
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Lyman Beecher
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Free Agency
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Free Agency
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ability to overcome sin
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Catherine Beecher
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supported educational opportunities for women
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Emma Willard
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founded 1st college-level school for women
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Mary Lyon
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founded Mount Holyoke Seminary
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Horace Mann
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public education
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Dorethea Dix
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assylum
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American Colonization Society
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organization that wanted to send freed African Americans to Africa
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David Walker
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free African American businessman from Boston who published Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
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William Lloyd Garrison
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white new england journalist; wrote Liberator
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Liberator
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written by Garrison; abolitionist newspaper
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American Anti-Salvery Society
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1st national anitslavery orginization to be devoted to immediate abolition and racial equality
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Frederick Douglass
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fugitive slave from Maryland; spoke out publicly against slavery
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Sojourner Truth
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worked for Anti-Slavery Society; "Ain't I A Woman?" speech
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Sarah and Angelina Grimkee
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most effective anitslavery activists; A wrote Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
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Theodore Weld
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Angelina's husband who helped write and publish American Slavery As It Is
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Elijah Lovejoy
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abolitionist editor; murdered by mod while protecting printing press
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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held women's rights meeting
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Lucretia Mott
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held women's rights meeting
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Seneca Falls Convention
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300 attended
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Declaration of Sentiments
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modeled democratic ideals set by Declaration of Independence
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Susan B Anthony
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important womens rights campaigner
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Lucy stone
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speaker for American Anti-Slavery Society
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Married Women's Property Act
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permitted married women to own property
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urbanization
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growth of cities, resources and transportation
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arose with the indusrtrial revolution
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a middle class;gender specific roles; Cult of True Womanhood; discovery of childhood
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American Party
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know nothings; anti-catholic
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southern society antebellum period
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singularly wealthy individuals; plantation life; connected to European tradition; strongest tie to england
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class society
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wealthy planters;small "yeoman" farmers; poor whites;free blacks;negro slaves
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slave religion
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Christian and african
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joel chandler Harris
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writer of Tales of Uncle Remus
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2nd great Awakening(frontier)
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methodist and baptist camp meetings
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2nd great Awakening(north)
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presbyterians and congregationalists; free will and free agency
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2nd great Awakening (south)
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presbyterian and baptist; "protracted meetings"; resisted change that could affect slavery
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temperance
Definition
moderate alcohol consumption
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teetotaling
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no alcohol comsumption
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william Lloyd garrison and Frederick douglass
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Abolitionism
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unitarianism
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rejection of trinity; god is "one"; individual pursuit in finding god
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Joseph Priestly
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founded unitarianism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
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transcendentalists
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Oberlin
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1st college men and women could attend together
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Brook Farm
Definition
utopian community for transcendentalists
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Margaret fuller
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wrote The Dial
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Oneida
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"complex marriage"; "stupiculture reproduction"; "mutual critism"; silverware manufacturing
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John Humphrey Noyes
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founded Oneida
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Fruitlands
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vegetarians;didn't believe in surplus of any kind
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Bronson Alcott
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founded fruitlands
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the Shakers
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insisted on celibacy;made furnature;believed they would witness 2nd coming of Christ; God had no gender
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Mother Ann Lee
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founder of the shakers
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Mormon
Definition
piligamy; golden plates became Book of mormon
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Joseph Smith
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founded the Mormons
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Hudson River School of Art
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romantic literature but realistic artwork *picturesque landscapes
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Thomas Cole
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artist at Hudson River School
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Noah Webster
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standardizing American English; Webster Speller and Dictionary
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William McGuffey
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The Ecliectic Reader (history,religion,geography,literature)
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TRANSCENDENTALIST
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