Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Best-selling novel in the U.S. before the Civil War

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Cemetery that became an artistic exhibition about the cycle of nature

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Mount Auburn

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“Gangs” that we’re involved in the promotion of illegal prize fighting

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Volunteer Fire Companies

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American author who wrote about living a simple life in the woods

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Henry David Thoreau

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Introduced ordinary Americans to African American song and dance

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Minstrel Shows

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Early horse racing capital of the United States

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New Orleans

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Religious evangelical who led a Middle-Class revival in Rochester, New York

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Charles Finney

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Place where children in New England learned about moral discipline

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Sunday School

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Organized a church on reaction to the dwindling of a male-dominated society

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Joseph Miller

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British sport that became popular among the working class poor

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Prize Fighting (boxing)

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Published Godet’s Lady’s Book for women

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Sarah Joespha Hale

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Author of the famous Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Southern Presbyterian Minister who wrote manuals on how to preach to slaves

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Charles Colcock Jones

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Most famous tourist attraction for wealthy Americans

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Niagara Falls

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Occupation of some of the best early-American prize fighters

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Butchers

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Ran the Sportsman’s Hall in NYC, a frequent venue for blood sports

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Free black who organized a slave uprising in South Carolina in 1822

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Denmark Vesey

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Location of Nat Turner’s revolt

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His followers created the Seventh Day Adventist Church

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William Miller

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The most popular form of theater among nineteenth-century Americans was…

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Minstrel Shows

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In the 1820’s and 1830’s, the Americans public viewed nature as

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An orderly, beautiful example of God’s creative plan

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Most Protestant denominations in America

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Favored local control in their churches

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Southern Slaves

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Created their own culture, which included religious piety and African-style songs and folk music

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Members of the Church of Jesus Christ in Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) believed that

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Descendants of the ancient Hebrews had been living in the America’s for many generations before Columbus in1492

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The most widely read novelist in the United States before the publication of Uncle Toms Cabin was
Susan Warner
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Protestant postmillennialists
Believed that there would be a thousand years of perfect social order followed by the return of Christ
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The American theater in the mid nineteenth century
Inspired heated class loyalists and debates that sometimes led to violence
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The popular literature of the1830's
Was primarily written by women for women
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Nineteenth century minstrel shows
We're traveling production in which white men in "black" face imitated African American songs and dances
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What was not popular among the northern working class in the mid nineteenth century
Opera
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By the1830's most of the responsibility for child rearing in northern homes rested with
Mothers
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The leading artists of mid nineteenth century america were
Landscape painters
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At their own religious meetings, slaves practiced a faith that was
Different and had opposing ideas to that of their owners
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The biblical figure that most revered in white southern white churches was
Abraham
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The large revivals in northern America most affected the va,use and beliefs of the
Middle Class
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The first mass circulation magazine for women was
Godey's Ladies Book
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The new, northern middle class of the early nineteenth century would best be described as
Country merchants, master craftsman, and market oriented farmers
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Essayist who declared that America's most prominent feature is its wilderness
Thomas Cole