Chapter 8 Vocabulary Flashcards
Second Great Awakening
second wave of religious enthusiasm
Revivalist
preachers who wanted to revive the role of religion in America
Charles Grandison Finney
influential revivalist
Joseph Smith
spoke and wrote visions he said directed him to found a new religious group
Mormon
Jesus Christ and Latter day saint followers
Unitarian
strictly only worshipped Jesus Christ
Utopian Community
Aspiring to be perfect communities
Transcendentalists
believed in the religion of nature
Ralph Waldo Emmerson
leading Transcendentalists
Henry David Thoreau
another Transcendentalist
Public School Movement
system of tax-supported public schools
Horace Mann
greatest school reformer
Dorothea Dix
mental illness teacher
Penitentiary movement
prison reform movement
Temperance Movement
effort to end alcohol abuse
Neal Dow
mayor of portland, known for lectures on alcohol abuse
Freedman
freed slave
Nat Turner
slave who lead his people to freedom
Abolition movement
reform against slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
leading abolitionists
Frederick Douglas
another slave abolitionist
Gag rule
law that prohibited slavery to be discussed in Congresss
Matrilineal
families who the inheritence of female names in property
Sojourner Truth
abolitionist leaders, former slave
