american pagent chapter 15 Flashcards

1005706247	deism	relieved on science rather than bible, denied the divinity of christ, believed in a supreme being that created the universe	1
1005706248	unitarianism	god existed only in one person, appealed to intellectuals	2
1005706249	peter cartwright	traveling preacher who converted many people to christianity	3
1005706250	charles grandison finney	one of the greatest revivalist preachers	4
1005706251	second great awakening	religion grows in the US, lines between classes and regions widened, issue of slavery split churches apart	5
1005706252	joseph smith	formed the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints (mormons). led them to illinois	6
1005706253	brigham young	after joseph smith was killed he led the mormons to utah to avoid persecution	7
1005706254	public education	tax supported school for the young. government could controll the future of the country by instilling beliefs and values in the minds of the young.	8
1005706255	horace mann	secretary of the mass board of education in MA, campaigned effectively for a better schooling system	9
1005706256	southern education	first state supported universities in the south. TJ founded the University of VA	10
1005706257	Emma Willard	secondary womens schools, opened Troy female Seminary	11
1005706258	age of reform	gradually abolish debtors prisions, crimminal codes softened, number of capital offenses reduced	12
1005706259	dorthy dix	traveled the country, visiting different asylums, her protests resulted in improved conditions for the mentally ill	13
1005706260	william ladd	formed the America Peace Society	14
1005706261	demon rum "old deluder"	problem of drinking found in women, clergymen, members of congress	15
1005706262	temperance society	persuaded drinkers to stop drinking, because alcohalism tore down family structure	16
1005706263	neal s. dow	"father of prohibition" thought that alcohol should be outlawed, supported the maine law which banned the manufacture and sale of liquor in ME. begining of prohibition	17
1005706264	women revolt	women could not vote and could not retain property after they were married, therefore women actually started to avoid marriage	18
1005706265	robert owen	founded the communal society in order to seek human betterment, however all untopias failed	19
1005706266	american medicine	american doctors and dentists used laughing gas and anesthetics	20
1005706267	dixie	battle hymn of confederates	21
1005706268	american literature	after the the war of independance american liturature recieved a boost in from the wave of nationalism	22
1005706269	washington irving	first american to win international recognition as a literary figure	23
1005706270	james fenimore cooper	the first american novelist to gain world fame	24
1005706271	transcendentalist movement	resulted from a liberalizing of the puritan theology. rejected the theory that all knowledge comes to the mind through the senses. traits: self reliance, self culture, self discipline	25
1005706272	ralph waldo emerson	transcendentalist poet and philosopher; urged american writers to forget european traditions and write about american interests	26
1005706273	henry david thoreau	transcendentalist who believed that one should reduce his bodily want so as to gain time for a pursuit of truth through study and meditation	27
1005706274	henry wadsworth longfellow	one of the most famous poets to come from american wrote for the refined class, was adopted by the less-cultured class	28
1005706275	edgar allan poe	wrote with a pessimistic tone not like the literature at the time	29
1005706276	herman melville	writer of the novel Moby Dick	30
1005706277	american historians	country needs to have existed independantly for quite some time for it to develop a history	31