Note Test 3 Day 1 (social and intellectual history) Flashcards

1
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What were americans like?

A

beliefs and attitudes that were acress the board

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2
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American Beliefs (5)

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  1. Aboslute Morale Laws
  2. Individualism
  3. Mission “manifest destiny”
  4. Change
  5. progress
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3
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American Characteristics (5)

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  1. Restless (always something to do)
  2. Optimistic (Positive, looking forward)
  3. Commercial
  4. Idealism- causes
  5. Violent
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4
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Religion

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Protestans

   Schisms

   despised roman catholics

    baptists

    social gospel
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5
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Evangelicals

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go around and spread gospel

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6
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William Channing

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Minister 1st church Boston

objected the trinity

founding of unitarion= 1 God

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7
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Charles Finney

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lawyer

compared to Billy Graham

“Salvation is here”

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8
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Philosophy

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Transcendentalism

Writers

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Transcendentalism

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taught Americans to slow down, ame over from GB- Romanticism

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10
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William Woodswroth

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Transcendentalist

“I am a man, speaking to men”

allow everyone to experience creativity

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11
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Writers (Trans.)

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Ralph W. Emerson

Henry D. Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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12
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Ralph W. Emerson

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loss child at young age

wrote self reliance

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13
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Henry D. Thoreau

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Wrote “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience”

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14
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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wrote “Moby Dick”

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15
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Reform

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Chane Fam Life
Doctrine of 2 spirits
Fads and Fashion
Dietary Reform

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16
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Change Fam. Life

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childhood

selection of mates

birth control

17
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Doctrin of 2 spirits

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women play important role in daily life

18
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Fads and Fashion

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Mary Lincoln loved to shop and look nice

19
Q

Dietary Reform

A

Sylvester Graham

20
Q

Phremology

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intellect based on size and shape of skull (psuedo- science)

21
Q

Spiritualism

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ppl could speak to dead

Seances

Andrew J. Davis

Margaret and Kate Fox

Mary Lincoln

Elizabeth Keekley (Mary’s slave)

22
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Elizabeth Keekley

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sewed all of mary’s clothes wrote a book about her experience in white house and how she thougth mary lincoln had a spending problem

23
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Utopian Society

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Brooke Farm

Shakers

Oneida

24
Q

Brooke Farm

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Nathaniel Hawthorne lived here a little while

Blythedale Romance- book by hawthorne

point out weak things about utopian society

25
Q

Shakers

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Leader= Marry Ann Lee

dance and shake in religious ceremoies

sexual equality

take orphans in and home them

26
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Oneida

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John Humphrey Nayes= leader

made pots and pans to make living

lasted the longest out of the 3 (50 yrs)

every women=wife of every man