187576601 | Second Great Awakening | A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans. | 0 | |
187576602 | Mormons | Church established by John Smith in 1830. This group empasized moderation, salvation, and hard work. | 1 | |
187576603 | Seneca Falls Convention | A convention held in New York, 1848 to discuss women's rights where the Declaration of Sentiments was written in efforts to get female suffrage. | 2 | |
187576604 | New Harmony | A Commune established in New Harmony, Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen | 3 | |
187576605 | Transcendentalism | Philisophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced American writers of the early nineteenth century | 4 | |
187576606 | Civil Disobedience | A theory started by Thoreau which was later applied by Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. | 5 | |
187576607 | Leaves of Grass | Whitman's collection of emotional poems that generated a shocking response | 6 | |
187576608 | The Scarlet Letter | A novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that demonstrates the Puritanic Society's reaction to adultry, as well as guilt. | 7 | |
187576609 | Dorothea Dix | A female reformer who advocated for the mentally ill and improved conditions durastically. | 8 | |
187576610 | Brigham Young | "Mormon Moses" who led the persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land in Utah | 9 | |
187576611 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | A woman who played a key role in the Seneca Falls Convention. She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and advocated for women's rights | 10 | |
187576612 | Lucretia Mott | 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 | 11 | |
187576613 | Walt Whitman | An American poet and Transcendentalist who was bold and celebrated American democracy | 12 | |
187576614 | Charles G. Finney | Starter of the Second Great Awakening. A preacher who scared people into salvation by preaching about the fires of Hell. | 13 | |
187576615 | Alexis de Tocqueville | French author who observed American democracy | 14 | |
187576616 | Deism | rejected the divinity of Christ and the Scientific Revolution scoffed at superstition | 15 | |
187576617 | Scientific Revolution | The intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science. | 16 | |
187576618 | Unitarian | Believe that God existed in 1 person and disagree with the theory of the Holy Trinity. They believed that people were saved by doing good works and were not born under "original sin" | 17 | |
187576619 | Public Education | Established using tax money. Greatly influenced by Jacksonian Democracy. | 18 | |
187576620 | Horace Mann | "Father of Public Education" | 19 | |
187576621 | American Temperance Society | A group who discouraged against drinking excessively or at all for that matter. They discussed its effects on society. | 20 | |
187576622 | Catherine Beecher | encouraged women to take jobs in teaching | 21 | |
187576623 | Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell | The first female doctor | 22 | |
187576624 | Declaration of Sentiments | Written at the Seneca Falls Convention that "all men and women were created equal" | 23 | |
187576625 | The Shakers | A religious sect started by Mother Ann Lee who stressed simplicity in everyday life and seperation of the sexes. | 24 | |
187576626 | Stephen Foster | Writer of several famous folk songs | 25 |
The American Pageant 13th Edition (Chapter 15) Flashcards
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