Age of Jackson #2

Question 1

Nativism

Answer 1

Hostility towards immigrants

Question 2

Know-Nothings (American Party)

Answer 2

Nativist Anti-Immigrant (Anti-Irish Catholic) political party

Question 3

Romanticism

Answer 3

Belief that God/Universe has a plan for you & you’re destined to do things… Feelings over reason

Question 4

Transcendentalism

Answer 4

The theory that man has the ability to give up his material possessions & become one w/ the natural universe/God… Crush the limits that your mind puts upon you

Question 5

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Answer 5

Embodied the Transcendentalist movement when he gives up all possessions & moves to Walden Pond

Question 6

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Answer 6

Founder of Transcendentalism movement & leading literary figure

Question 7

Brook Farm (1841-1849)

Answer 7

Transcendentalist utopia in Massachusetts that includes equal rights for women

Question 8

Utopia

Answer 8

Ideal society that gets away from the hustle and bustle of city life

Question 9

Second Great Awakening

Answer 9

revival of religion where ministers preached salvation by faith and hard work, started in western New York

Question 10

Mormons

Answer 10

Religious sect led by Joseph Smith (N.Y.) eventually led to Utah by Brigham Young

Question 11

Penny Papers

Answer 11

Newspapers the common man could afford

Question 12

Temperance

Answer 12

Consuming alcohol in moderation

Question 13

Horace Mann (1796-1859)

Answer 13

Leader of the educational reform movement

Question 14

Republican Womanhood / Cult of Domesticity

Answer 14

The idea that women should be at home and care for the children

Question 15

Gradualism

Answer 15

Process of slowly ending slavery

Question 16

Abolition

Answer 16

To immediately end slavery (usually w/out compensation to owners)

Question 17

Emancipation

Answer 17

Freeing of all enslaved people

Question 18

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 18

Radical abolitionist; Editor of the Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper in Boston); believed in total equality

Question 19

Frederick Douglass

Answer 19

Former Maryland slave
-Runs away to North for freedom
-Most famous African American
-self-educated
-leader of the anti-slavery movement
-Editor of The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper)

Question 20

King Cotton

Answer 20

Refers to the amount of wealth cotton produced and how it ran the Southern economy