Chapter 15 Flashcards

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Deism

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  1. reason over revelation 2. science over the bible 3. Supreme Being 4. Jesus is not divine 5. inspired Unitarianism 5. Thomas Jefferson
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Second Great Awakening

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1810s; supported reform movements; Peter Cartwright and Charles Grandison Finney

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Western NY religiously known as?

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Burned over district: Mormons and the Seventh Day Adventists created, many strong preachers

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Mormons founding

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Founded by Joseph Smith, 1830s; in Western NY;

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Full name of Mormons?

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The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints

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Mormons moving

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Brigham Young took over, moved them to Utah.

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More Public Schools:

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wanted to enfranchise voters, and made edu more widespread

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Main reformer of Public Schools

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Horace Mann; better curricula and funding

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Noah Webster

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dictionary

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Mcguffey

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Emphasized morality, patriotism, idealism

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most early colleges were:

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sectarian

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first state college:

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Uni of NC founded in 1791

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First co-ed college:

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Oberlin in Ohio, 1837

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First women’s college

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Mt. Holyoke 1837

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reform movements of 1800s

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a. asylum reform b. prison reform c. public education reform d. religious reform e. alcohol reform f. women’s rights reforms g. abolitionism

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influence of second great awakening on Reform

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promoted reason, self-betterment was very optimistic .

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End of debtors prisons why?

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Jacksonians detested them; unfair

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new view of prisons in new names:

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penetentiaries, reformatories, correctional insitutions

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old view of the mentally ill?

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criminal

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key reformer for mentally ill?

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Dorothea Dix; campaigned

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why reform alcohol?

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hurst ability to work, violent

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2 approaches to alcohol reform?

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  1. temperance: convince people to change 2. prohibition: make alcohol illegal
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first alcohol reform org.

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American Temperance Society 1826

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T. S. Arthur’s book?

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Ten Nights in a Barroom and wWhat I saw There;

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Neal S. Dow

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Father of Prohibition; fought for a law in maine

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Lucretia Mott

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London antislavery convention 1840

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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removed ‘obey’ in marriage vows

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Susan B. ANthony

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most famous suffragist

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Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

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first female doctor, graduated from Med school

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Sarah and Angelina Grimke

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anti-slavery

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Lucy Stone

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retained maiden name

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Amelia Bloomer

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promoted short skirt and trousers

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Woman’s Rights Convention

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Seneca Falls, NYj; 1840s; produced a Declaration of Sentiments saying “All mean nd women are created equal” based on D. of Ind.; demanded a ballot for females

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Oneida Colony

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NY; promoted Free love, birth control

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Other utopian Communities

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Brook Farm (MA); New Harmony (Indiana)

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Scientists in 1800s

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Benjamin Silliman, Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray

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architechture 1820-1850

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Greek Revival

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architecture mid-19th?

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Gothic Revival

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Jefferson architecture

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designed house Monticello; based Uni of VA off of it.

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Writers after 1812

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reflected postwar nationalism; esp. from the Knickerbockers school NY

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Transcendentalism

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source of truth is inside YOU, look deeply

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Two famous Transcendentalists:

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Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry David Thoreau (On the Duty of Civil Disobedience)

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Walt Whitman

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well known poet, for his book of poetry

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Other writers:

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Edgar Allen Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne (The scarlet letter); Herman Melville (Moby Dick)