AP US chapter 15 studyguide
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| the practice of having two or more spouses at one time | ||
| literally, rule by God; the term is often applied to a state where religious leaders exercise direct or indirect political authority | ||
| one who is carried away by a cause to an extreme or excessive degree | ||
| referring to any place or plan that aims at an ideal social order | ||
| referring to the theory or practice in which the means of production are owned by the community as a whole | ||
| referring to the belief in or practice of the superiority of community life or values over individual life, but not necessarily the common ownership of material goods | ||
| concerning the improvement of the human species through selective breeding or genetic control | ||
| concerning the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, or any artistic or cultural values presumed to be based on those enduring ancient principles | ||
| referring to the belief in the direct apprehension of God or divine mystery, without reliance on reason or human comprehension | ||
| one who refuses to follow established or conventional ideas or habits | ||
| the principle of resolving or engaging in conflict without resort to physical force | ||
| sohpisticated, elegant, cosmopolitan | ||
| under the care and direction of God or other benevolent natural or supernatural forces | ||
| the revivalist movement called the Second Great Awakening | ||
| Methodists and Baptists | ||
| The popular preaching of evangelical revivalists in both the West and eastern cities | ||
| The Christian reform of social problems like alcohol and slavery | ||
| The region of western N.Y. State that experienced frequent and intense revivals | ||
| The split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches | ||
| Their cooperative economic practices ran contrary to American economic individualism | ||
| Horace Mann | ||
| Better treatment of the mentally ill | ||
| The sharp division of labor that kept women at home and men working outside the home | ||
| Equal rights, including the right to vote | ||
| Communal economies and alternative sexual arrangements | ||
| Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson | ||
| Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant | ||
| Inner truth and individual self-reliance | ||
| Liberal religious belief, held by many of the Founding Fathers, that stressed rationalism and moral behavior rather than Christian revelation | ||
| Religious revival that began on the frontier and swept eastward, stirring an evangelical spirit in many areas of American life | ||
| The two religious denominations that benefited from the evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century | ||
| Religious groups founded by Joseph Smith that eventually established a cooperative commonwealth in Utah | ||
| Memorable 1848 meeting in New York where women made an appeal based on the Declaration of Independence | ||
| Commune established in New Harmony, Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen | ||
| Intellectual commune in Massachusetts based on "plain living and high thinking" | ||
| Jefferson's stately home in Virginia, which became a model of American classical architecture | ||
| New York literary movement that drew on both local and national themes | ||
| Philosophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced many American writers of the early nineteenth century | ||
| The doctrine, promoted by American writer Henry David Thoreau in an essay of the same name, that later influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. | ||
| Walt Whitman's shocking collection of emotional poems | ||
| A disturbing New England masterpiece about adultery and guilt in the old Puritan era | ||
| The great but commercially unsuccessful novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of a white whale | ||
| The masterpiece of New England writer Louisa May Alcott | ||
| Radical New York commune that practiced complex marriage and eugenic birth control | ||
| Bold, unconventional poet who celebrated American democracy | ||
| The "Mormon Moses," who led persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land - Utah | ||
| Influential evangelical revivalist of the Second Great Awakening | ||
| New York writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece | ||
| Long-lived early American religious sect that attracted thousands of members to its celibate communities | ||
| Idealistic Scottish industrialist whose attempt at communal utopia failed | ||
| Second-rate poet and philosopher, but first-rate promoter of transcendentalist ideals and American culture and scholarship | ||
| Eccentric southern-born genius whose tales of mystery, suffering, and the supernatural departed from general American literary trends | ||
| Quietly determined reformer who substantially improved conditions fro the mentally ill | ||
| Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love, death, and immortality | ||
| Leading feminist who wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments" in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage | ||
| Novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family | ||
| Path-breaking American novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization | ||
| Quaker women's rights advocates who also strongly supported abolition of slavery |
