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| Started in the 1730s-40s by Jonathan Edwards who believed in salvation and the necessity of dependence on God's grace. It was also a revival of religious feeling. | ||
| Started in 1800 and started from the southern frontier and made its way north. It was based on Methodism and Baptism and established many new sects of religion. Also widened the lines between class and religion. | ||
| An evangelist who was one of the greatest preachers of all time (spoke in New York City). He also made the "anxious bench" for sinners to pray and was was against slavery and alcohol. | ||
| Western New York area where there were many speeches about "hellfire and damnation". | ||
| The belief in God. | ||
| Religion that questioned the Trinity, believed in free will and salvation based on good works. (Richer Communities). | ||
| A Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley. (Poorer communities). | ||
| Any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers. (Poorer communities). | ||
| Religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830. He formed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Had golden plates given to him by an angel and practiced polygamy. | ||
| Territorial governor in 1850 and lead the mormons to Utah. (Polygamist). | ||
| Religion founded by Joseph Smith and moved from Illinois to Utah. | ||
| A religion that denies the existence of health cries. They also believe that sickness and sin are errors of the human mind and can be overcome by altering thoughts, not by using drugs or medicines. | ||
| Believed that christ would return in the 1840s. | ||
| An ideal place (usually not realistic). | ||
| A transcendentalist Utopian experiment, put into practice by transcendentalist former Unitarian minister George Ripley at a farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. The community, in operation from 1841 to 1847, was inspired by the socialist concepts of Charles Fourier. They worked on the farm until it burnt down in a fire. | ||
| (1825)Utopian socialist, believed that humans would show their true natural goodness if they lived in a cooperative environment. He also worked for child labor laws. Through him society he was seeking human betterment. | ||
| It was founded by John Humphrey Noyes. It was a group of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in New York. They practiced polygamy, communal property and communal raising of children. (Utopian society). | ||
| Utopian group that splintered from the Quakers, believed that they and all other churches had grown too interested in this world and neglectful of their afterlives. They also prohibited marriage and sexual relationships. | ||
| Society named after Audubon (easy) that worked for the protection of birds. | ||
| Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryan. Writers from NYC who wrote during the first part of the nineteenth century | ||
| American writer remembered for the stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," contained in The Sketch Book (1819-1820). He was the first American author recognized abroad. | ||
| Wrote numerous sea-stories as well as the historical romances known as the Leather stocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, which many people consider his masterpiece. , First American before 1830 to use National Heritage as a theme in his adventure novels. | ||
| Wrote famous poems and stories such as The Bells, Casket of Amontillado, and The Raven. He is also considered the father of the detective stories. | ||
| An American writer in the 1800s who drew on his experiences at sea and living on South Pacific islands for material and also wrote "Moby Dick". In addition, he rejected the optimism of the transcendentalists and felt that man faced a tragic destiny. | ||
| American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement. | ||
| American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War. | ||
| American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry. He also celebrated the greatness of America. | ||
| Novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family. She is best known for writing "Little Women". | ||
| Wrote poetry with simple words of love, life, nature and death sometimes with deep meanings written during her social and her reclusive years. | ||
| A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience. The philosophy was pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson. | ||
| American writer who wrote textbooks to help the advancement of education. He also wrote a dictionary which helped standardize the American language. He was a lexicographer. | ||
| Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he was a prominent proponent of public school reform, and set the standard for public schools throughout the nation. He advocated for better school hours, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. | ||
| Schools established for children of any type to learn at. | ||
| Worked to improve the treatment of the mentally ill. At the outbreak of the Civil War, she was appointed superintendent of women nurses for the Union forces. She was a teacher and an author. | ||
| The site of the women's rights convention that met in July in 1848 in the Wesleyan Chapel, where 300 men and women attended. At the convention, they vote in the Seneca Falls Declaration, which was signed by 32 men. At the gathering, Elizabeth Cady Staton read a Declaration of Sentiment listing the many discriminations against women, and adopted eleven resolutions, one of which called for women's suffrage. | ||
| A prominent advocate of women's rights, Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott. She also, joined Susan B. Anthony to form the National Woman Suffrage Association. She also opposed 15th amendment. (She left "obey" out of her marriage ceremony). | ||
| A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848 | ||
| The name given to Thomas Jefferson's mansion. | ||
| The militant effort to do away with slavery. It began in the north in the 1700's. Becoming a major issue in the 1830's, it dominated politics by the 1840's. Congress became a battle ground between the pro and anti slavery forces. (Movement against slavery). | ||
| Key leader of woman suffrage movement, social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation. | ||
| First integrated and co- educational college. | ||
| One of the earliest state-supported universities, founded in 1819; founded by Thomas Jefferson, who designed its architecture and separated it from religion and politics; focused on modern languages and the sciences. | ||
| Opened Mount Holyke Female Seminary in Massacusetts in 1837; Mount Holyke was the first womens college in the U.S. | ||
| 1826, Protestant ministers and others concerned with the high rate of alcohol consumption and the effects of such excessive drinking, founded this society and wanted people to completely abstain. | ||
| First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S., A woman who challenging the taboo of professional women. She proved that women are able to do what men can. | ||
| Social reformer, leader in women's movement and a transcendentalist. Edited "The Dial" which was the publication of the transcendentalists. It appealed to people who wanted "perfect freedom" "progress in philosophy and theology and hope that the future will not always be as the past". (She lived at Brook Farm at one point). |
