Random Terms and People
271835112 | ATU | American Temperance Union- created for the limitation of the sale and consumption alcohol, 18th amendment | |
271835113 | Haystack Prayer Meeting | Bible studies; focused on missions | |
271835114 | Lyceum | Traveling organizations that sponsored public programs and entertainments; established for the purpose of improving the social, intellectual, and moral fabric of society | |
271835115 | Oberlin College | One of 1st to allow women attend | |
271835116 | Romantic Period | Era of optimistic writing w/ traditional American values | |
271835117 | Second Great Awakening | Frontier movement; circut rider ministers, ie; Ashbury, Cartwright | |
271835118 | Transcendentalism | Communing w/nature, through god's nature you find answers, tree huggers | |
271835119 | Underground Railroad | Founded by Sojourner Truth, for runaway slaves for freedom | |
271835120 | Unitarianism | Unity of faiths, ways of life; general concept of togetherness; acceptance of diversity, many ways to heaven | |
271835121 | Utopian Societies | Perfect societies | |
271835122 | Women's suffrage | Women's right to vote/other rights | |
271835123 | YMCA | Young Men's Christian Association; inner city relief center | |
271835124 | Adoniram Judson | Father of American Missions | |
271835125 | Charles Finney | Evangelized Urban areas (Irish) | |
271835126 | Francis Asbury | Pioneered the circuit rider ministry; Christian values in Midwest | |
271835127 | Hiram Bingham | Missionary introduced Christianity to Hawaiians; start American presence in Hawaii | |
271835128 | Lott Carey | Father of Western African Missions; in Monrovia | |
271835129 | Matthew Perry | Missionary to Japan | |
271835130 | Payson Hammond | Leader of Sunday School Union, P.H | |
271835131 | Peter Cartwright | Traveling frontier preacher, Christian values in Mid-West | |
271835132 | Stephen Paxton | leader of Sunday School Union | |
271835133 | Townshend Harris | Negotiator of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce w/Japan | |
271835134 | Francis Parkman | Wrote CA and Oregon Trail | |
271835135 | George Bancroft | Historian of the U.S. | |
271844591 | Henry David Thoreau | Wrote Walden; lead Utopian Society Movement | |
271844592 | James Fennimore Cooper | Wrote: Leather Stocking Tales | |
271844593 | Noah Webster | Wrote: Blue Backed Speller | |
271844594 | Walt Whitman | Wrote: Leaves of Grass, Captain O' Captain | |
271844595 | William Cullen Bryan | Wrote: Thanatopsis, Transcendentalist | |
271844596 | William McGuffey | McGuffey's Reader | |
271844597 | Elizibeth Cady Stanton | Women's rights activist, co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement,E.C.S. | |
271844598 | Lucrettia Mott | Women's rights activist, Quaker | |
271844599 | Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) | Founded the Underground R.R. | |
271844600 | Susan B. Anthony | Women's rights activist, co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement | |
271844601 | William Lloyd Garrison | Wrote the Liberator, believed in abolition | |
271844602 | Benjamin Latrobe | Designed Capital building | |
271844603 | Gilbert Stewart | American painter, painted many portraits of washington. | |
271844604 | Horace Mann | 1st Secretary of Education, Mass model | |
271844605 | Louis Agassi | Paleontologist; proffessor @ Harvard |