AP US History reformers Flashcards
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| 5427029265 | Catherine Beecher | Educational reformer; established Hartford Female Seminary; wrote Treatise on Donestic Economy | 0 | |
| 5427029266 | Sarah and Angelina Grimké Sarah | Objected to male opposition to their antislavery activities One wrote Letter on the Condition of Women and Equality of the Sexes | 1 | |
| 5427029267 | Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth | Start out as an abolitionist then progress to women's right reformation one wrote the Declaration of Sediments | 2 | |
| 5427029268 | Amelia Bloomer | Women's health to be protected; popularized a short dress with full length Turkish style pants; published The Lily; loved bicycles and said women should be able to do more things/have more flexibility | 3 | |
| 5427029269 | Elizabeth Blackwell | First woman to receive medical degree; set the basis for women education; learned hygiene is important | 4 | |
| 5427029270 | Charles G. Finney | Presbyterian revivalist; most important preacher during second great awakening; preached fear of damnation; reform and personal morality; "burned over district" | 5 | |
| 5427029271 | William Miller | Predicted exact day for second coming Premillennialism-Jesus came, died, left, and people are waiting for hime to come back "Millerites" | 6 | |
| 5427029272 | Peter Cartwright | Most famous circuit rider preacher | 7 | |
| 5427029273 | Charles Fourier | French socialist writer; first to use the word "féministe" | 8 | |
| 5427029274 | Robert Owen | Believed environment forms the character; not religiously grounded; believed in free love not marriage; private property, religion, and rational property are bad; believed in birth control | 9 | |
| 5427029275 | George Ripley | Very interested in the exploration of self and wanted all members to reach their full potential; Brook Farm-main building burnt down and city did not recover | 10 | |
| 5427029276 | "Mother" Ann Lee | Believed she was the second coming of the Messiah and the daughter of God; both men and women are equal in the sight of God; Shakers-shook away sins; do not have relationships with other people: adopt and convert people | 11 | |
| 5427029277 | John Humphrey Noyes | Rejected tradition family and marriage; complex marriage-all women are married to all men Postmillenialism-Jesus came, resurrected, 1,000 years of perfectibility of man, when achieved, Jesus will come back (not literal 1,000 years | 12 | |
| 5427029278 | Joseph Smith | Book of Mormon; Faced discrimination everywhere he went; only success: founded church or Morm; came to hime in dream saying all religions are wrong | 13 | |
| 5427029279 | Brigham Young | Founded "New Zion"; practice of polygamy and secrecy aroused hostility of US government | 14 | |
| 5427029280 | Oliver Wendall Holmes | Early understanding of Germ Theory | 15 | |
| 5427029281 | Sylvester Graham | Need balance in life; human is glutness-hard to maintain health; became strict vegetarians; studied skull Led to the Graham cracker | 16 | |
| 5427029282 | Dorothea Dix | Crusader for the mentally ill; SHE PUT THE CRAZY IN THE CRAZY HOUSE | 17 | |
| 5427029283 | Theobald Matthew | Priest; crime was connected to alcohol; started the Total Abstinence Pledge | 18 | |
| 5427029284 | Neal Dow | Napoleon of Temperance and the Father of Prohibition Liked to fight but was a Quaker; Blue Laws-how alcohol is regulated/sold | 19 | |
| 5427029285 | Washingtonians | Argued alcoholism was a disease; movement overtaken by emphasis of slavery gained strength after Civil War with the Women's Christian Temperance Union | 20 | |
| 5427029286 | Horace Mann | Education is essential for democracy; people have a voice in what they are doing; teachers should be paid good; need education more than a few months; Board of Education-uniformed and expanded schools | 21 | |
| 5427029287 | William Holmes McGuffey | Popular; textbooks are fabulous and promoted democracy and patriotism | 22 | |
| 5427029288 | Oberlin | First school to admit women and blacks-not equal education though | 23 | |
| 5427029289 | Thomas Gallaudet | Founded school for the deaf | 24 | |
| 5427029290 | Samuel Gridley Howe | Founded school for the blind | 25 | |
| 5427029291 | Elihu Burritt | And anti-war activist | 26 | |
| 5427029292 | James Birney | Ran as Liberty Party's presidential candidate; former southern slave owner; educated at Princeton; changed to abolitionist | 27 | |
| 5427029293 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin-inflamed passions in the North and South; romantic fiction combined with abolitionist political agenda; changed nature of anti-slavery debate | 28 | |
| 5427029294 | William Gilmore Simms | Opposed Harriet Beecher Stowe in his novel The Sword an the Distaff-strong southern literary voice that supported slavery | 29 | |
| 5427029295 | Fredrick Douglass | North start; organized efforts to help fugitive slaved escape to North and Canada; lectured against slavery | 30 | |
| 5427029296 | Harriet Tubman | Underground Railroad "Moses" of her people | 31 | |
| 5427029297 | Sojourner Truth | Freed slave and feminist-eloquent antislavery advocate | 32 | |
| 5427029298 | David Walker | Most radical black abolitionist who called for an uncompromising opposition to and violent overthrow of slavery in his Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World; worked for Freedom's Journal | 33 | |
| 5427029299 | William Lloyd Garrison and Wendall Phillips Garrison | Believed slavery was the root of all the ills of society; gave speeches Published the Liberator | 34 | |
| 5427029300 | Elijah Lovejoy | First martyr for abolition; resulted in a more moderate stance by some abolitionists | 35 | |
| 5427098881 | Theodore Dwight Weld and Lewis Tappan Weld | Gradual emancipation of all slaver in America; compensation to the owners for the loss of their slaves Published American Slavery as It Is | 36 | |
| 5427131261 | Lyman Beecher | Presbyterian Minister; spoke against slavery and temperance; a famous father; theological seminary | 37 | |
| 5427382875 | Important Artists | Thomas Cole (leader) Asher Durand Fredrick Church Albert Beirstadt | 38 | |
| 5427382876 | Mary Lyon | Wanted women to have higher education; became world wide model for education; importance of math and science | 39 | |
| 5427382877 | James Fenimore Cooper | Significance of Americas westward expansion, life on the frontier and wilderness | 40 | |
| 5427382878 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Scarlet Letter | 41 | |
| 5427382879 | Herman Melville | Moby Dick-epic tale | 42 | |
| 5427382880 | Edgar Allen Poe | Pain and horror, darker side of the human spirit The Raven and Fall of the House of Usher | 43 | |
| 5427382881 | Emily Dickinson | Recluse who published 2,000 poems | 44 | |
| 5427382882 | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass-poet, love of American democracy, personal liberty, and individuality | 45 | |
| 5427382883 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Former Unitarian minister; essays and lectures-sought to unite the individual with the universe-through nature individuals can find personal fulfillment; urged self reliance, independent thinking, primacy of spiritual matters; leading critic of slavery and ardent supporter of the Union in the Civil War Nature and Self Reliance-most famous essays | 46 | |
| 5427382884 | Henry David Thoreau | Lived in same town as Emerson | 47 | |
| 5427382885 | Walden | Pioneer ecologist and conservationist; essay "On Civil Disobedience" | 48 | |
| 5427382886 | Timothy Dwight | Preached that free will played a role in salvation-individuals could gain salvation through their own efforts | 49 | |
| 5427382887 | Margaret Fuller | Feminist who addressed issues of gender roles | 50 | |
| 5427382888 | Theodore Parker | Theologian and radical reformer | 51 |