APUSH: Chapter 15
Which of the following was not a characteristic of the Second Great Awakening? -Enormous revival gatherings, over several days, featuring famous evangelical preachers -A movement to overcome denominational divisions through a united Christian church -The spilling over of religious fervor into missionary activity and social reform -The prominent role of women in sustaining the mission of the evangelical churches -An intense focus on emotional, personal conversion and a democratic spiritual equality
A movement to overcome denominational divisions through a united Christian church
Female reformer who promoted short skirts and trousers as a replacement for highly restrictive women's clothing
Amelia Bloomer
Where was American Temperance Society formed
Boston
The Mormon Moses who led persecuted Latter Day Saints to their promised land in Utah
Bringham Young
Short lived intellectual commune in Massachusetts based on plain living and high thinking
Brook farm
Area of western New York state where frequent, fervent religious revivals produced intense religious controversies and numerous new sects
Burned over Districts
Influential evangelical revivalist of the Second Great Awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
Liberal religious belief, held by many of the Founders such as Paine, Jefferson, and Franklin, that stressed rationalism and moral behavior rather than Christian revelation while retaining belief in a Supreme Being
Deism
Quietly determined reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
Eccentric genius whose tales of mystery, suffering and the supernatural departed from general American literary trends
Edgar Allan Poe
Leading feminist who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love, death and immortality
Emily Dickinson
Established Troy Female Seminary
Emma Willard
Conservatives of the Second Great Awakening
Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Unitarians
New York writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece
Herman Melville
Wrote Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The major promoter of an effective tax supported system of free public education for all American children was
Horace Mann
Art movement of the 1820s and 1830s lead by Thomas Cole, which celebrated the grand divinity of nature
Hudson river school
Path breaking American novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization
James Fenimore Cooper
Leader of a radical New York commune that practiced complex marriage and eugenic birth control
John Humphrey Noyes
A leading female transcendentalist who wrote Little Women and other novels to help support her family
Louisa May Alcott
Two leading female imaginative writers who added luster to New England's literary reputation were
Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson
Quaker women's rights advocate who also strongly supported abolition of slavery
Lucretia Mott
pioneering women's educator, founder of Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts
Mary Lyon
The two religious denominations that benefited most from the evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century
Methodists Baptists
Two denominations that became the dominant faiths among the common people of the West and South were
Methodists and Baptists
Thomas Jefferson's stately self designed home in Virginia that became a model of American architecture
Monticello
Religious group founded by Joseph Smith that eventually established a cooperative commonwealth in Utah
Mormons
Father of prohibition
Neal S. Dow
Evangelical college in Ohio that was the first institution of higher education to admit blacks and women
Oberlin college
Second rate poet and philosopher, but first rate promoter transcendentalist ideals and american culture
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Founder of New Harmony
Robert Owen
Religious revival that began on the frontier and swept eastward, stirring and evangelical spirit in many areas of American life
Second Great Awakening
Memorable 1848 meeting in New York where women made an appeal based on the Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention
First state supported University
UNC
religion that believed God only existed in 1 person, free will and salvation through good works and stressed the goodness of human nature
Unitarian
Bold, unconventional poet who celebrated American democracy
Walt Whitman
The Knickerbocker Group of American writers included
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William cullen Bryant
Head of the American Peace Society
William Ladd
The major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches was
a split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches
Reformer Dorothea Dix worked for the cause of
better treatment of the mentally ill
The doctrine, promoted by American writer Henry David Thoreau in an essay of the same name, that later influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
civil disobedience
Many of the american utopian experiments of the early nineteenth century focused on all of the following except for
developing small-business enterprises and advanced marketing techniques
Architectural style that borrowed from classical Greek and Roman examples which emphasized symmetry, balance, and restraint
federal style
The transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller stressed the ideas of
inner truth and individual self-reliance
Besides the hostility and ridicule it suffered for most men, the pre civil war women's movement failed to make large grains because
it was overshadowed by the larger and seemingly more urgent antislavery movement
Who were many early American reformers
middle class idealists inspired by evangelical protestantism
Popular nineteenth century musical entertainments that featured white actors and singers with painted black faces
minstrel shows
Reasons people didn't like mormons
polygamy, drilling militia, and voting as a unit
Long lived communal religious group, founded by Mother Ann Lee, that emphasized simple living and prohibited all marriage and sexual relationships
shakers
Evangelical preachers like Charles Grandison Finney linked personal religious conversion to
the Christian reform of social problems in order to build the Kingdom of God on Earth
One primary cause of women's subordination in nineteenth century America was
the cult of domesticity that sharply separated women's sphere of the home from that of men in the workplace
The term Burned Over District refers to
the region of western New York State that experienced especially frequent and intense revivals
The tendency toward rationalism and indifference in religion was reversed beginning about 1800 by
the revivalist movement called the Second Great Awakening
Besides their practice of polygamy, the Mormons aroused hostility from many Americans becuase of
their cooperative economic practices that ran contrary to American economic individualism
Philosophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced many American writers of the early nineteenth century
transcendentalism