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