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Transcendentalist
The trenscdentalist was a movement in liturature called for a "return to nature". some known traanscendentalist are: Walt Hitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. -
Abolitionist
Abolitionist was people who stood for rights for slaves. there are some famous abolitionist like: william loyld garrison, fredrick douglass, and Harriet Tubman -
Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls was the convention of women and some men, whot talked on the issue of voting rights for women. a known activist for women voting rights was Susan.B Anthony -
Free Soils Party
The Free-Soil Party developed in part from a political rivalry in New York State. The Democratic Party there consisted of contending factions: the Barnburners, who were strongly opposed to slavery, and the Hunkers, who were neutral or supportive of slavery. -
Temperance
The movement existed in a matrix of unrest and intellectual ferment in which such other social ills as slavery, neglect and ill-treatment of marginalized people, were addressed by liberals and conservatives alike. Sometimes called the First Reform Era -
Radical Republicans
The Radicals, a faction of the regular Republican Party, came into prominence on the national level after 1860. They never achieved majority status within Republican ranks, but were successful with manipulating the other factions to their advantage. Radical influence was especially strong in the New England states. -
Populist party
The populist party was the farmers alliance that became bigger . They need power so the only way to get power is through politics and they made a political platform. -
Labor Unions
Labor unions are workers' organization: an organization of wage earners that is set up to serve and advance its members' interests in terms of wages, benefits, and working hours and conditions. examples: Knights of labor, AFL, Yellow Dog Contacts, socailism,and haymarket square riot -
progressives
The Progressive Movement was an effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great spurt of industrial growth in the last quarter of the 19th century. The frontier had been tamed, great cities and businesses developed, and an overseas empire established, but not all citizens shared in the new wealth, prestige, and optimism.
