Part 3

Question 1

antebellum period

Answer 1

• public schools
• improved treatment of mentally ill
• controlling sale of alcohol
• women’s rights movements
• abolishing slavery movements.

Question 2

Religion: the second great awakening

Answer 2

• Calvinist rejected began to counter attack liberal views in 1790s
• evangelical preachers were understood by the uneducated
• revivalism in New York 1823, appealed to emotions and fear
• baptists & Methodists (southwest) larges protestants

Question 3

Religion- rationalism

Answer 3

belief in human reason (came from enlightenment and American rev)

Question 4

Religion- Millennialism

Answer 4

world was about to end with second coming of Jesus

Question 5

Religion: Mormons

Answer 5

• moved west to New Zion, Utah
• connection between native tribes and lost tribes of israel

Question 6

Culture: transcendentalist

Answer 6

• romanticism
• physical and intuitive things ones inner-self essence of God in nature
• challenged materialism
• art more important than wealth
• antislavery

Question 7

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 7

(1803-1882) independent thinking

Question 8

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 8

(1817-1862) *nonviolence
lived in a cabin for 2 years to connect to nature

Question 9

Brook Farm

Answer 9

“more natural union between intellectual and manual labor”

Question 10

CE: Shakers

Answer 10

property in common
men and women separate

Question 11

CE: Amana colonies

Answer 11

German pietism
allowed marriage

Question 12

CE: New harmony

Answer 12

nonreligious
problems of inequality and alienation

Question 13

CE: Oneida company

Answer 13

“perfect” social and economical equality

Question 14

CE: Fourier phalanxes

Answer 14

share work and housing

Question 15

Arts & Literature

Answer 15

• paintings
• architecture
• literature

Question 16

Temperance

Answer 16

• targeted alcohol
• moral exhortation
• led by white women

Question 17

Public Asylums

Answer 17

state supported:
- mental hospitals
- schools for deaf and blind
- prisons

Question 18

public education

Answer 18

tax supported, free common schools moral education, higher education

Question 19

industrialization

Answer 19

reduced economic value of children, changes in families & women’s roles, birth control

Question 20

Women’s rights

Answer 20

cult of domesticity- women as moral leaders in households
Seneca falls convention (1848)- first women’s rights convention
overshadowed by antislavery movements

Question 21

Antislavery Movement

Answer 21

American colonization society, american antislavery society, liberty party, black abolitionist, violent abolitionism

Question 22

Reforms

Answer 22

• American peace society (anti war in Mexico)
• protections of sailors
• dietary reforms
• women’s dress codes
• phrenology

Question 23

southern reactions to reforms

Answer 23

alarmed by reforms and became more committed to traditions