AP US History Antebellum Reform Flashcards

5488594022	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.	0
5488594023	Mormons	church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, religious group that emphasized moderation, saving, hard work, and risk-taking; moved from IL to UT	1
5488594024	Joseph Smith	religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830	2
5488594025	Brigham Young	United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith. Led the Mormons to Utah	3
5488594026	Romanticism	a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization. Valued imagination and emotion over reality	4
5488594027	Transcendentalism	a nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.	5
5488594028	Ralph Waldo Emerson	American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement. Wrote "self reliance", which was very popular.	6
5488594029	Henry David Thoreau	American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.	7
5488594030	Brook Farm	An experiment in Utopian socialism, it lasted for six years (1841-1847) in New Roxbury, Massachusetts.Founded by George Ripley	8
5488594031	Shakers	utopian group that splintered from the Quakers, believed that they and all other churches had grown too interested in this world and neglectful of their afterlives; no sex	9
5488594032	Oneida Community	A group of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in New York. Practiced polygamy, communal property, and communal raising of children.	10
5488594034	Thomas Cole	Founder of the Hudson River school, famous for his landscape paintings	11
5488594035	Frederick Church	an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters	12
5488594036	Hudson River School	First native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River	13
5488594039	Nathanial Hawthorne	wrote The Scarlet Letter about a puritan adulteress; he also wrote about the concepts of evil, sin and death	14
5488594040	Temperance	restraint or moderation, especially in regards to alcohol or food	15
5488594041	Dorothea Dix	reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better treatment of the mentally ill	16
5488594042	Horace Mann	United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)	17
5488594043	McGuffey Reader	Written by influential Ohioan William McGuffey, a powerful teacher-preacher. McGuffey's Readers hammered home lasting lessons in morality, patriotism, and idealism.	18
5488594044	Grimke Sisters	were 19th-century American Quakers, educators and writers who were early advocates of abolitionism and women's rights.	19
5488594045	Lucretia Mott	Quaker activist in both the abolitionist and women's movements; with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was a principal organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.	20
5488594046	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	A prominent advocate of women's rights, Stanton organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott	21
5488594047	Seneca Falls Convention(1848)	First women's rights convention in American History. Issued "Declaration of Sentiments"-declared "all men and women are created equal" and listed women's grievances against laws and customs that discriminated against them.	22
5488594048	Susan B. Anthony	social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation	23
5488594049	William Lloyd Garrison	1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.	24
5488594050	The Liberator	An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.	25
5488594051	Frederick Douglass	runaway slave, well-known speaker on the condition of slavery, worked with Garrison and Wendell Phillips, founder of The North Star	26
5488594052	Harriet Tubman	United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North	27
5488594053	Sojourner Truth	former slave who escaped and became an abolitionist and women's rights activist	28