Chapter 15 Flashcards
Deism
- reason over revelation 2. science over the bible 3. Supreme Being 4. Jesus is not divine 5. inspired Unitarianism 5. Thomas Jefferson
Second Great Awakening
1810s; supported reform movements; Peter Cartwright and Charles Grandison Finney
Western NY religiously known as?
Burned over district: Mormons and the Seventh Day Adventists created, many strong preachers
Mormons founding
Founded by Joseph Smith, 1830s; in Western NY;
Full name of Mormons?
The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Mormons moving
Brigham Young took over, moved them to Utah.
More Public Schools:
wanted to enfranchise voters, and made edu more widespread
Main reformer of Public Schools
Horace Mann; better curricula and funding
Noah Webster
dictionary
Mcguffey
Emphasized morality, patriotism, idealism
most early colleges were:
sectarian
first state college:
Uni of NC founded in 1791
First co-ed college:
Oberlin in Ohio, 1837
First women’s college
Mt. Holyoke 1837
reform movements of 1800s
a. asylum reform b. prison reform c. public education reform d. religious reform e. alcohol reform f. women’s rights reforms g. abolitionism
influence of second great awakening on Reform
promoted reason, self-betterment was very optimistic .
End of debtors prisons why?
Jacksonians detested them; unfair
new view of prisons in new names:
penetentiaries, reformatories, correctional insitutions
old view of the mentally ill?
criminal
key reformer for mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix; campaigned
why reform alcohol?
hurst ability to work, violent
2 approaches to alcohol reform?
- temperance: convince people to change 2. prohibition: make alcohol illegal
first alcohol reform org.
American Temperance Society 1826
T. S. Arthur’s book?
Ten Nights in a Barroom and wWhat I saw There;
