Chapter 15 Flashcards
The Age of Reason
Book by Paine the denounces churches
Deism
Rely on reason and science, not god
Unitarians
optimistc, rationalism, one god
Second Great Awakening
camps and fire brimstone
Burned-Over District
Western New York, burned with fiery sermons
lycecum
old Ted-Talks
American Temperance society
implore drinkers to sign temperance pledge
Maine Law of 1851
Inhibited the manufactue and sale of alcohol
Woman’s Convention at Seneca Falls
Delcaration of Sentiments introduced
New Harmony
communal society in Indianna
Brook Farm
Transcendentalist society in Massachussets
Oneida Community
complex marriage, New York
Shakers
No sex commune in New York
Federal Style
Americans copy Greek architecture for public buildings
Greek Revival
American such as Jefferson copy Greek architecture
HUdson River School
Romantic art school, run by Thomas Cole
Minstrel show
White dress as blacks, develop jazz
Romanticism
Imagination, nature, individualism
transcendentalism
oversoul, nature, individualism
The American Scholar
encourages America to break free from the influence of Europe
Peter Cartwright
sinewy brimstone speaker from illinois to tenessee
Charles Grandison Finney
Revivals from Rochester to NYC, “anxious bench”
Joseph Smith
Mormon Jesus
Brigham Young
Mormon Moses, 27 WIVES
Horace Mann
Secretary of the Massachussets borad of education, wants better school system
Dorothea Dix
women who wants prison and asylum reform
Neal S. Dow
mayor of Portland who wants a ban on alcohol
Lucretia Mott
quaker not recognized at London antislave conference
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Reads the Declaration of Sentiments
Susan B. Anthony
women’s rights, she likes
Amelia Bloomer
creates skirts
Robert Owen
creates New Harmony
John J. Audobon
painted birds
Stephen C. Foster
Published Camptwon Races, Old Folks at Home and Oh! Susanna
James Fenimore Cooper
romanticist who wrote Last of the Mohicans
Ralph Waldo Emerson
transcendentalist writer
Henry David Thoreau
wrote Walden
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
poet and language professor at Harvard
Louisa May Alcott
wrote Little Women
Emily Dickinson
seclusion makes her write on topics such as death, love and nature
Francis Parkman
Writes on the struggle between Britain and France for control over America