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The American Pageant 13th Edition (Chapter 15) Flashcards

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187576601Second Great AwakeningA 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
187576602MormonsChurch established by John Smith in 1830. This group empasized moderation, salvation, and hard work.1
187576603Seneca Falls ConventionA 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
187576604New HarmonyA Commune established in New Harmony, Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen3
187576605TranscendentalismPhilisophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced American writers of the early nineteenth century4
187576606Civil DisobedienceA theory started by Thoreau which was later applied by Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.5
187576607Leaves of GrassWhitman's collection of emotional poems that generated a shocking response6
187576608The Scarlet LetterA novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that demonstrates the Puritanic Society's reaction to adultry, as well as guilt.7
187576609Dorothea DixA female reformer who advocated for the mentally ill and improved conditions durastically.8
187576610Brigham Young"Mormon Moses" who led the persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land in Utah9
187576611Elizabeth Cady StantonA woman who played a key role in the Seneca Falls Convention. She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and advocated for women's rights10
187576612Lucretia MottA 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 184811
187576613Walt WhitmanAn American poet and Transcendentalist who was bold and celebrated American democracy12
187576614Charles G. FinneyStarter of the Second Great Awakening. A preacher who scared people into salvation by preaching about the fires of Hell.13
187576615Alexis de TocquevilleFrench author who observed American democracy14
187576616Deismrejected the divinity of Christ and the Scientific Revolution scoffed at superstition15
187576617Scientific RevolutionThe 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
187576618UnitarianBelieve 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
187576619Public EducationEstablished using tax money. Greatly influenced by Jacksonian Democracy.18
187576620Horace Mann"Father of Public Education"19
187576621American Temperance SocietyA group who discouraged against drinking excessively or at all for that matter. They discussed its effects on society.20
187576622Catherine Beecherencouraged women to take jobs in teaching21
187576623Dr. Elizabeth BlackwellThe first female doctor22
187576624Declaration of SentimentsWritten at the Seneca Falls Convention that "all men and women were created equal"23
187576625The ShakersA religious sect started by Mother Ann Lee who stressed simplicity in everyday life and seperation of the sexes.24
187576626Stephen FosterWriter of several famous folk songs25

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