American Pageant 13th edition
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| 766042672 | Alexis de Tocqueville | During a visit, he noted the church-going nature of America. | |
| 766042673 | Deism | This sprang out of the Enlightenment and was based on scientific or logical reasoning rather than faith. This believed in a supreme being who'd made the universe. | |
| 766042674 | Unitarian | These people believed God existed in one person, but not in the Holy Trinity. They rejected the divinity of Christ, believed people were essentially good at heart and that people were saved through good works. | |
| 766042675 | 2nd Great Awakening | This was a Christian revival movement that began around the 1800s. It reached full speed in the 1830s. It spawned a series of other movements such as prison reform, temperance, and abolition of slavery. | |
| 766042676 | (Peter) Cartwright | A Methodist circuit rider. He was a leading preacher of the 2nd Great Awakening. | |
| 766042677 | (Charles Grandison) Finney | He was the most gifted speaker/preacher during the 2nd Great Awakening. He could move the masses. | |
| 766042678 | Burn-Over District | These parts of western NY were known as this due to the hellfire of its revival preaching. | |
| 766042679 | Millerites | AKA Adventists. They predicted Christ's return on Oct 22, 1844. When the prophecy failed to materialize, the movement lost credibility. | |
| 766042680 | (Joseph) Smith | He claimed to have found golden tablets in NY with the "Book of Mormon" inscribed on them. He later came up with the "Mormon" faith. | |
| 766042681 | (Brigham) Young | Because Mormons were run out of their towns due to troubles with their neighbors due to polygamy, drilling a militia, and voting as a block, he took over and led them along the "Mormon Trail" to Utah. | |
| 766042682 | free public education | This was not popular in the early 1800s and opponents questioned why their tax money should go to teach another person's child. | |
| 766042683 | (Horace) Mann | He became known as the "Father of Public Education." He pushed for free public education and education that strayed from just "dead languages" to more "hands-on" education. | |
| 766042684 | (Noah) Webster | He wrote his "Blueback Speller" and dictionary. His lessons were mixed with grammar and moral lessons. | |
| 766042685 | (William H.) McGuffey | He wrote "____'s Reader" that nearly every schoolchild read from. It contained English lessons as well as patriotic and moral lessons. | |
| 766042686 | University of North Carolina | This was the first state-supported university. | |
| 766042687 | UVA | This was a public university to be independent of religion or politics. | |
| 766042688 | Troy Female Seminary | This was a college for women established by Emma Willard in 1821. | |
| 766042689 | Mount Holyoke Seminary | This was a college for women established by Mary Lyon in 1837. | |
| 766042690 | (Dorothea) Dx | She sought and got improved treatment for the mentally insane. Prior to her work, mental insanity was viewed as a choice and was dealt with harshly. | |
| 766042691 | American Peace Society | This was led by William Ladd. His message was lost when the Civil War erupted, but he would soon show up again when the League of Nations and UN would come. | |
| 766042692 | American Temperance Society | This was founded in Boston in 1826. Local chapters began to emerge. | |
| 766042693 | temperance | This war had the goals of removing the desire to drink and punishing those who did drink. | |
| 766042694 | rape | This in America was punishable by death, whereas in France it was usually overlooked. | |
| 766042695 | (Catherine) Beecher | She urged women to take teaching jobs until they married. | |
| 766042696 | (Lucretia) Mott, (Susan B.) Anthony, and (Elizabeth Cady) Stanton | They all pushed for women's suffrage. | |
| 766042697 | (Dr. Elizabeth) Blackwell | She became the first female doctor. | |
| 766042698 | (Amelia) Bloomer | She wrote short skirts, bloomers. | |
| 766042699 | (Margaret) Fuller | She edited a transcendentalist journal. | |
| 766042700 | Grimke sisters | They pushed for the abolition of slavery. | |
| 766042701 | Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention | This was the greatest first-step in women's rights in NY. It wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments" and demanded female suffrage. | |
| 766042702 | Declaration of Sentiments | This was written at the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention and it argued that "all men AND WOMEN were created equal." | |
| 766042703 | New Harmony, Indiana | This was an attempt at a utopia. Robert Owen started this. It attracted intellectual types but failed due to infighting and confusion. | |
| 766042704 | Brook Farm | This was an attempt at a utopia. It was started in MA and attracted Transcendentalist intellectuals. When a major building burnt down, the whole thing was lost to debt. | |
| 766042705 | Oneida Community | This was an attempt at a utopia. It started in NY. It was communal and embraced free love, birth control, and selecting parents to have planned children. It started as a communistic-style project, it was capitalism that saved it. They sold baskets for a project and flatware, then cutlery. | |
| 766042706 | Shakers | This was an attempt at a utopia. This was begun by Mother Ann Lee as a religious sect. It stressed simplicity and separated sexes. This led to them dying off by 1940. | |
| 766042707 | (Nathaniel) Bowditch | He wrote on navigation. | |
| 766042708 | (Matthew) Maury | He studied the ocean winds and currents. | |
| 766042709 | (Benjamin) Silliman | He was a Harvard biologist who stressed original research over rote memorization. | |
| 766042710 | (Asa) Gray | He was a Harvard botanist and was a pioneer of botany. | |
| 766042711 | (John) Audubon | He was an early naturalist who painted birds with precise details. | |
| 766042712 | (Dr. Oliver Wendall) Holmes | He said that if the medicines were thrown into the sea, the people would be better off and the fish worse. | |
| 766042713 | (Gilbert) Stuart | He painted many portraits of George Washington | |
| 766042714 | (John) Trumbull | He painted scenes of the Revolutionary War | |
| 766042715 | (Stephen) Foster | His songs were the most famous of the popular nostalgic, rhythmic, yet stereotypical of Af-Ams. | |
| 766042716 | Transcendentalism | This was a New England intellectual movement that began to challenge ways of thinking. They said that knowledge rises above just the senses. | |
| 766042717 | (Ralph Waldo) Emerson | He was the most famous Transcendentalist. He was a former Unitarian pastor turned writer and lyceum speaker. His most famous writing was "Self Reliance." | |
| 766042718 | (Henry David) Thoreau | He spent two years living in the woods. He also wrote "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" which emphasized peacefully not following unjust laws. |
