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The American Pageant 13th Edition (Chapter 15) Flashcards

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5617482937Second 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
5617482938MormonsChurch established by John Smith in 1830. This group empasized moderation, salvation, and hard work.1
5617482939Seneca 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
5617482940New HarmonyA Commune established in New Harmony, Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen3
5617482941TranscendentalismPhilisophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced American writers of the early nineteenth century4
5617482942Civil DisobedienceA theory started by Thoreau which was later applied by Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.5
5617482943Leaves of GrassWhitman's collection of emotional poems that generated a shocking response6
5617482944The Scarlet LetterA novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that demonstrates the Puritanic Society's reaction to adultry, as well as guilt.7
5617482945Dorothea DixA female reformer who advocated for the mentally ill and improved conditions durastically.8
5617482946Brigham Young"Mormon Moses" who led the persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land in Utah9
5617482947Elizabeth 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
5617482948Lucretia 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
5617482949Walt WhitmanAn American poet and Transcendentalist who was bold and celebrated American democracy12
5617482950Charles G. FinneyStarter of the Second Great Awakening. A preacher who scared people into salvation by preaching about the fires of Hell.13
5617482951Alexis de TocquevilleFrench author who observed American democracy14
5617482952Deismrejected the divinity of Christ and the Scientific Revolution scoffed at superstition15
5617482953Scientific 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
5617482954UnitarianBelieve 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
5617482955Public EducationEstablished using tax money. Greatly influenced by Jacksonian Democracy.18
5617482956Horace Mann"Father of Public Education"19
5617482957American Temperance SocietyA group who discouraged against drinking excessively or at all for that matter. They discussed its effects on society.20
5617482958Catherine Beecherencouraged women to take jobs in teaching21
5617482959Dr. Elizabeth BlackwellThe first female doctor22
5617482960Declaration of SentimentsWritten at the Seneca Falls Convention that "all men and women were created equal"23
5617482961The ShakersA religious sect started by Mother Ann Lee who stressed simplicity in everyday life and seperation of the sexes.24
5617482962Stephen FosterWriter of several famous folk songs25

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