Period 4: Chapter 15 Flashcards
Deists
Believe in a higher power but don’t worship one
Second Great Awakening
Reaction to growing liberal Christianity
Reform movements
Camp meetings: passionate preaching
More about the positives of God rather than Johnathan Edwards in the First Great Awakening
Who was not really affected by the Second Great Awakening?
People on the east coast with already established churches
Mormonism
Started by Joseph Smith in 1830
Opposed by other Americans
- Cooperative society and pologomy
Brigham Young led caravan from Illinois to Utah after Smith’s murder
Education ideas
Public education was necessary for preserving a stable democracy
- Boomed in the early 1900s
- Focused on 3Rs, little on critical thinking
- Horace Mann propelled education reform (more critical focus thinking)
Education was illegal for Af. Am. in the South
Growth of public and private colleges
Prison reform
Led by Dorothea Dix
- The mentally ill were treated like criminals
Seneca Falls
A women’s rights convention
American Temperance Society
Started by women
Argued that alcohol was bad for productivity and the family
What happened to Abolition?
It intensified
New ideas formed at the time
More than 40 utopias created
- Generally unsuccessful
Advancements in science
- Medicine was still generally primitive
Developments in art and architecture
Offensive minstrel shows
Minstrel shows
When white people dressed as black people mocking general stereotypes while putting on a show
Literature changes
Romanticism
Darker writing (gothic style)
- Edgar Allen Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Helped create a distinct American culture - self-reliance
Henry David Thoreau: Lived in the woods for two years and wrote “Civil Disobedience”
Transcendentalism
Focusing on oneself and looking for God in nature
Challenged materialism of the 19th century
Stressed individualism and often anti-slavery
Romanticism
Imagination over reason
Was emphasized
