The American Pageant 13th Edition (Chapter 15) Flashcards

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