Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform, 1824-1840 #4 Flashcards

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Second Great Awakening

A

Speak to everyone affected by Market Revolution

Individual/Communal redemption

Perfect in society and god’s eyes

hard-work=success

Mormons/Utopian society

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Mormons

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unorthodox

move West

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Reform movement periods

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1830/1840s
2nd Great Awakening

1900/1910s
Populist/Progressive

1960/1970s
Civil Rights

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Temperance in the 1840s

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Only Maine

Part of daily life

Nativism
German/Irish immigrants

Factory owners + politicians want
worker output

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Asylum Penitentiary Movement

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Mentally ill= criminals

Women help mentally ill

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Horace Mann

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1840/1850s

Public education

Essential for Democratic government

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Transcendentalism

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Spiritual/Intellectual

Thoreau

Emerson

Not reform or mainstream

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Abolitionism

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Minority Whites

Huge impact

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David Walker

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pamphlet

resist slavery!

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WIlliam Lloyd Garrison

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Immediate emancipation

The Liberator

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The Liberator

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1830s

Will Lloyd Garrison

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Most anti-slavery movements

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gradual

already-slaves will remain slaves

Lovejoy Incident– abolitionist killed

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Liberty Party

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Abolitionists
1840

Anti-slavery was in the Constitution

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Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionist

born into slavery

learn to read and write

powerful speaker

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Southern defense of slavery

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Northern “wage slaves”

It was in bible etc.

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Women in antebellum society

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intellectually inferior

Cult of domesticity

Femme Covert
give everything to husband when married

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Seneca Falls Convention

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First Feminist movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott

issued a Declaration of Sentiments modeled after the Declaration of Independence

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“Burned over district”

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West NY during 2nd GA

because of frequent “hell and brimstone” revivals

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Baptists and Methodists

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Convert South and on the frontier

Largest protestant denominations

20
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Peter Cartwright

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Methodist converter

2nd GA

21
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Emerson

A

not to imitate European culture

Challenge materialism

Nature

supported various reforms

anti-slavery

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Thoreau

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Civil Disobedience

Didn’t pay tax cuz didn’t believe in war w/ Mexico

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Brook Farm

A

Transcendentalist farm

bad fire, heavy debts

innovative school for sons and daughters of NE elites

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Shakers

A

ascetic life

women and men separate

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New Harmony

A

Utopian

Secular

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Oneida

A

“free love”

orgies

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Hudson River school

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Celebrate America beauty

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Architecture

A

adopt classic Greek styles

columns

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after War of 1812 Literature

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Nationalistic

Disappointment with religion/social expectations

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prisons

A

more to repent

solitary confinement

high suicide rate–> fail

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McGuffey reader

A

set standard

Protestant

hard work
punctuality
sobriety

emerging industrial society

Catholics –> private schools

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Higher education

A

prodded by 2nd GA

33
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American Colonization Society

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Send freed slaves to Africa

Liberia

34
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phrenology

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study of the skull

racist as hell

35
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Nat Turner

A

retaliation: hundreds of Blacks killed

set precedence for Southern violence against Blacks

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lyceum lectures

A

spread and popularize knowledge

37
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Emerson’s American Scholar

A

Americans should work for cultural autonomy

38
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Who would NOT have supported the Whigs
Southern advocates of nullification
Northern temperance reformers
Anti-Masons
Irish immigrants
A

Irish immigrants (Catholic)

39
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Antebellum farmers

A

hard to make enough $$ to buy own farms

40
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Newspapers became popular in the early 1800s

A

Printing press

penny novels

41
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Force Bill

A

use arms to collect customs duties

from Nullification crisis