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The American Pageant 13th Edition (Chapter 15) Flashcards

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8089443832Second 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
8089443833MormonsChurch established by John Smith in 1830. This group empasized moderation, salvation, and hard work.1
8089443834Seneca 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
8089443835New HarmonyA Commune established in New Harmony, Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen3
8089443836TranscendentalismPhilisophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced American writers of the early nineteenth century4
8089443837Civil DisobedienceA theory started by Thoreau which was later applied by Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr.5
8089443838Leaves of GrassWhitman's collection of emotional poems that generated a shocking response6
8089443839The Scarlet LetterA novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that demonstrates the Puritanic Society's reaction to adultry, as well as guilt.7
8089443840Dorothea DixA female reformer who advocated for the mentally ill and improved conditions durastically.8
8089443841Brigham Young"Mormon Moses" who led the persecuted Latter-Day Saints to their promised land in Utah9
8089443842Elizabeth 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
8089443843Lucretia 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
8089443844Walt WhitmanAn American poet and Transcendentalist who was bold and celebrated American democracy12
8089443845Charles G. FinneyStarter of the Second Great Awakening. A preacher who scared people into salvation by preaching about the fires of Hell.13
8089443846Alexis de TocquevilleFrench author who observed American democracy14
8089443847Deismrejected the divinity of Christ and the Scientific Revolution scoffed at superstition15
8089443848Scientific 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
8089443849UnitarianBelieve 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
8089443850Public EducationEstablished using tax money. Greatly influenced by Jacksonian Democracy.18
8089443851Horace Mann"Father of Public Education"19
8089443852American Temperance SocietyA group who discouraged against drinking excessively or at all for that matter. They discussed its effects on society.20
8089443853Catherine Beecherencouraged women to take jobs in teaching21
8089443854Dr. Elizabeth BlackwellThe first female doctor22
8089443855Declaration of SentimentsWritten at the Seneca Falls Convention that "all men and women were created equal"23
8089443856The ShakersA religious sect started by Mother Ann Lee who stressed simplicity in everyday life and seperation of the sexes.24
8089443857Stephen FosterWriter of several famous folk songs25

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