Chapter 14 The Ferment of Reform and Culture 1790-1860

Critical Thinking Activity: Religious revival gives birth to social and cultural reform: In the following table, match the people in the dropdown menus with their historical contribution. 1. Transcendentalist who elevated poetry into a new art form 2. First American poet to be enshrined at Westminster Abbey 3. First female graduate of a medical college 4. Reformer who nonetheless believed in female role of homemaker

1. Walt Whitman 2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3. Elizabeth Blackwell 4. Catharine Beecher

Map Activity: Religious revival in the early nineteenth century and its effects on American society: Using your knowledge of U.S. geography and Mormon history, select the names of the cities, towns, or states from the dropdown menus provided.

A. Utah Territory B. Council Bluffs C. Missouri

Joseph Smith and his followers were criticized by their non-Mormon neighbors for all of the following except:

Dedication to free enterprise

Map Activity: Religious revival in the early nineteenth century and its effects on American society: While the religious revival strengthened Americans' faith in God and church, it also did which of these?

Divided long-established faiths and created splinter groups and sects

What was stressed by the transcendentalist movement?

Each individual's need to pursue his own truth based on an inner light that transcends the senses

Image Analysis Primary Source Activity: Which distinction does not seem to affect the where the students sit in the classroom?

Economic class.

Primary Source Activity: The second Great Awakening and reform in the nineteenth century America: This feminist was the first woman to graduate from medical school.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Which literary figure was a lifelong recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, whose poetry was recognized only after his or her death?

Emily Dickinson

Primary Source Activity: The second Great Awakening and reform in the nineteenth century America: True or False: According to this passage, the best way to tackle intemperance is in a gradual manner. The author believed that even if the campaign against intemperance started small, it would take increasing hold and inevitably spread across the nation like a wildfire that refused to be quelled.

False

Image Analysis Primary Source Activity: How does the painting depict the role of gender in the classroom?

Girls' approach to education was more collaborative than that of boys.

What was the first American college to admit both women and blacks?

Oberlin College

Which of the following was an emphasis of Deism?

Reason and the scientific pursuit of knowledge

Primary Source Activity: The second Great Awakening and reform in the nineteenth century America: Founded in 1747 in England and brought to America in 1774, this group's monastic customs prohibited both marriage and sexual relations

Shakers

Primary Source Activity: The second Great Awakening and reform in the nineteenth century America: A popular novel that centered on the subject of alcohol was ________ Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There. It was the second-highest-selling book in the 1850s and was even adapted, with much success, to the stage.

T. S. Arthur's

Image Analysis Primary Source Activity: What can be inferred about the social structure of the region depicted based on the image?

The region was not ethnically diverse.

What stimulated the work of America's first internationally recognized writers Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper?

The upsurge of American nationalism following the War of 1812

Critical Thinking Activity: Religious revival gives birth to social and cultural reform: For what are the Grimke sisters, Angelina and Sarah, remembered?

Their devotion to eradicating slavery

Map Activity: Religious revival in the early nineteenth century and its effects on American society: How did the Mormons survive in their arid new climate?

They created ingenious and cooperative methods of irrigation.

The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of which people?

Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann

How did the Second Great Awakening primarily spread to the masses?

camp meetings

What did feminists at the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York, demand?

the right to vote

Critical Thinking Activity: Religious revival gives birth to social and cultural reform: True or False: Just as it relied on European scientific achievements, so too did America look to the Old World for architectural inspiration.

true