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What was the core message of the Second Great Awakening? How did the movement affect race relations in the United States?


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Urbanization

The process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas, leading to various social, economic, and environmental changes.

Know-Nothing Party

Nativist, anti-Catholic third party organized in 1854 in reaction to large-scale German and Irish immigration; the party’s only presidential candidate was Millard Fillmore in 1856.

Fugitive Slave Act

Legislation passed in the United States that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people within the territory of the United States.

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