Chapter 12 Flashcards
Charles G. Finney
urged people to abandon sin and lead good lives in dramatic sermons at religious revivals
second Great Awakening
A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans.
Peter Cartwright
Best known of the Methodist “circuit riders” (traveling frontier preachers). Sinewy servant of the Lord ranged for half-century from Tennessee to Illinois, calling upon sinners to repent.
American Temperance Society
1826, Protestant ministers and others concerned with the high rate of alcohol consumption and the effects of such excessive drinking, founded this society; wanted people to completely abstain from drinking alcohol
Dorothea Dix
A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820’s, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendant of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War.
William Lloyd Garrison
was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator,
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
Seneca Falls
(1848) the first national women’s rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
Brook Farm
A transcendentalist Utopian experiment, put into practice by transcendentalist former Unitarian minister George Ripley
American Colonization Society
A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country.
Sarah Grimke
A woman who published a pamphlet arguing for equal rights of women called “Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women”. She also argued for equal education opportunities.
American Tract Society
Founded in 1825 to reach minorities that were religiously deprived in the evangelical terms of the time: Native Americans, sea merchants, and the urban destitute.
McGuffey Reader
One of the first known textbooks, it is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey’s Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960, sell about 30,000 copies a year. McGuffey’s Readers are still in use today in some school systems, and by parents for home schooling purposes.
Liberty Party
A former political party in the United States; formed in 1839 to oppose the practice of slavery; merged with the Free Soil Party in 1848
New Harmony, Indiana
wealthy and idealistic textile manufacturer Robert Owen established a utopian communal society here in 1825.
