Chapter 15 Vocab and People I forgot

Question 1

The Age of Reason

Answer 1

book by Thomas Paine that declared churches were “set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit”

Question 2

Deism

Answer 2

belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe

Question 3

Second Great Awakening

Answer 3

Protestant religious revival in the United States from about 1795 to 1835

Question 4

Burned-Over District

Answer 4

central and western NY that had many religious revivals and new religious movements due to the Second Great Awakening

Question 5

Mormons

Answer 5

a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints founded by Joseph Smith

Question 6

Lyceum

Answer 6

hall for traveling lecturers in science, literature and moral philosophy

Question 7

Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls

Answer 7

Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women where Elizabeth Stanton read a “Declaration of Sentiments”

Question 8

American Temperance Society

Answer 8

reform society formed in 1826 dedicated to help people abstain from drinking

Question 9

Maine law of 1851

Answer 9

Maine approved total ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor

Question 10

New Harmony

Answer 10

utopian communal society in Indiana (1825) of 1000 that sank in a morass of contradiction and confusion

Question 11

Brook Farm

Answer 11

utopian society in Mass in 1841 with 20 intellectuals committed to transcendentalism that failed after a fire destroyed a communal building

Question 12

Oneida Community

Answer 12

NY 1848 practiced free love, birth control, and eugenic selection of parents that sold steel traps

Question 13

Federal Style

Answer 13

style of architecture w/ symmetry, classical details and a side gabled roof

Question 14

Shakers

Answer 14

religious movement w/ elements of socialism that ended since it prohibited marriage and sex

Question 15

Greek Rival

Answer 15

style of architecture in the 1820s-1850s inspired by the symmetry, proportion, simplicity, and elegance of the ancient Greek temples

Question 16

Hudson River school

Answer 16

america’s 1st artistic fraternity that focused on romantic art

Question 17

minstrel shows

Answer 17

a form of American theater where white actors painted their faces black and acted as plantation characters

Question 18

romanticism

Answer 18

emphasized imagination over reason, nature over civilization, intuition over calculation, ad self over society

Question 19

transcendtalism

Answer 19

philosophy started in the early 19th century that promotes intuitive, spiritual thinking instead of scientific thinking based on material things.

Question 20

“The American Scholar”

Answer 20

speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson that urged American writers to throw off European traditions

Question 21

Peter Cartwright

Answer 21

best known methodist traveling preacher during the 2nd great awakening

Question 22

Neal S. Dow

Answer 22

“father of prohibiton” who sponsored the maine law of 1851

Question 23

Lucretia Mott

Answer 23

quaker who was a mother of the women’s rights movement

Question 23

Lucy Stone

Answer 23

retained her maiden name after marriage

Question 24

Amelia Bloomer

Answer 24

wore a masculine short skirt

Question 25

Robert Owen

Answer 25

founded New Harmony

Question 26

John J. Audubon

Answer 26

painter who specialized in birds

Question 27

Stephen C. Foster

Answer 27

white man who became famous for writing a song abt slaves

Question 28

walt whitman

Answer 28

famous poet who wrote Leaves of Grass

Question 28

james Fenimore cooper

Answer 28

first American novelist to gain world fame

Question 29

henry wadsworth longfellow

Answer 29

one of the msot popular american poets

Question 30

Herman Melville

Answer 30

wrote Moby Dick

Question 30

Francis parkman

Answer 30

wrote an A textbook on struggle between France and Britain in colonial times for the mastery of North America.