Note Test 3 Day 1 (social and intellectual history) Flashcards
What were americans like?
beliefs and attitudes that were acress the board
American Beliefs (5)
- Aboslute Morale Laws
- Individualism
- Mission “manifest destiny”
- Change
- progress
American Characteristics (5)
- Restless (always something to do)
- Optimistic (Positive, looking forward)
- Commercial
- Idealism- causes
- Violent
Religion
Protestans
Schisms
despised roman catholics
baptists
social gospel
Evangelicals
go around and spread gospel
William Channing
Minister 1st church Boston
objected the trinity
founding of unitarion= 1 God
Charles Finney
lawyer
compared to Billy Graham
“Salvation is here”
Philosophy
Transcendentalism
Writers
Transcendentalism
taught Americans to slow down, ame over from GB- Romanticism
William Woodswroth
Transcendentalist
“I am a man, speaking to men”
allow everyone to experience creativity
Writers (Trans.)
Ralph W. Emerson
Henry D. Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph W. Emerson
loss child at young age
wrote self reliance
Henry D. Thoreau
Wrote “Walden” and “Civil Disobedience”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
wrote “Moby Dick”
Reform
Chane Fam Life
Doctrine of 2 spirits
Fads and Fashion
Dietary Reform
Change Fam. Life
childhood
selection of mates
birth control
Doctrin of 2 spirits
women play important role in daily life
Fads and Fashion
Mary Lincoln loved to shop and look nice
Dietary Reform
Sylvester Graham
Phremology
intellect based on size and shape of skull (psuedo- science)
Spiritualism
ppl could speak to dead
Seances
Andrew J. Davis
Margaret and Kate Fox
Mary Lincoln
Elizabeth Keekley (Mary’s slave)
Elizabeth Keekley
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
Utopian Society
Brooke Farm
Shakers
Oneida
Brooke Farm
Nathaniel Hawthorne lived here a little while
Blythedale Romance- book by hawthorne
point out weak things about utopian society
