AP US History
American Pageant 13th Ed.
Chapter 15 Review
(Vocab + Questions)
Also used:
http://wikinotes.wikidot.com/chapter-15-13
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| 514561957 | Alexis de Tocqueville | spirit of church in america(French observer) -thought rape in America was punishable by death,France it was usually overlooked | |
| 514561958 | Deism | sprang out of the Enlightenment (AKA "Age of Reason") and was based on scientific or logical reasoning rather than faith | |
| 514561959 | Unitarian | religion drew followers even farther away from Christianity • Believed God existed in 1 person ("uni"), but not in the Holy Trinity. • Rejected the divinity of Christ. • Believed people were essentially good at heart, not born under "original sin." • Believed people were saved through "good works", not through faith in Christ. • Attracted intellectual types, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| 514561960 | Millerites | • aka Adventists • predicted Christ's return on October 22, 1844 • When this prophesy failed to materialize, the movement lost credibility | |
| 514561961 | Joseph Smith | claimed to have found golden tablets in NY with the Book of Mormon inscribed on them | |
| 514561962 | Brigham Young | took over and led the Mormons along the "Mormon Trail" to Utah after Joseph Smith was killed | |
| 514561963 | Horace Mann | • known as the "Father of Public Education" • pushed for free compulsory education and education | |
| 514561964 | Noah Webster | Blueback Speller and dictionary | |
| 514561965 | William H. McGuffey | wrote the McGuffey's Reader | |
| 514561966 | University of North Carolina | first state-supported university | |
| 514561967 | Dorothea Dix | sought and got improved treatment for the mentally insane | |
| 514561968 | American Peace Society | Pacifists led by William Ladd | |
| 514561969 | American Temperance Society | • founded in Boston, 1826 • used a variety of methods to encourage temperance (discourage drinking) | |
| 514561970 | Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell | became the first female doctor | |
| 514561971 | Margaret Fuller | edited a transcendentalist journal | |
| 514561972 | Grimke sisters | Sisters who pushed for the abolition of slavery | |
| 514561973 | Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (1848) | • It wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments" arguing that "all men and women were created equal" • It demanded female suffrage • Neither of these things happened anytime soon, but the women's rights movement was born | |
| 514561974 | Robert Owen | started New Harmony, Indiana (1825) | |
| 514561975 | Brook Farm | • Started in Massachusetts (1841) • It attracted Transcendentalist intellectuals | |
| 514561976 | Oneida Community | was communal and embraced free love, birth control, and selecting parents to have planned children | |
| 514561977 | Shakers | • were begun by Mother Ann Lee as a religious sect • stressed simplicity in their lives and separated the sexes | |
| 514561978 | Thomas Jefferson | invented a new and better plow | |
| 514561979 | Nathaniel Bowditch | wrote on navigation | |
| 514561980 | Matthew Maury | studied the ocean winds and currents | |
| 514561981 | Benjamin Silliman | Yale chemist and geologist for 50+ years | |
| 514561982 | Louis Agassiz | Harvard biologist who stressed original research over rote memorization | |
| 514561983 | Asa Gray | Harvard botanist and was a pioneer of botany | |
| 514561984 | John Audubon | early naturalist who painted birds with precise details | |
| 514561985 | Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes | said that if all the medicines were thrown into the sea, the people would be better off and the fish worse | |
| 514561986 | Gilbert Stuart | painted many portraits of George Washington | |
| 514561987 | John Trumbull | painted scenes of the Revolutionary War |
