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Chapter 13 Flashcards

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Unitarianism

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Late 18th century liberal sprout from the New England Congregationalist church
Rejected trinity, professed oneness of God and goodness of the rational man

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Deism

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Enlightenment thought applied to religion, emphasized reason and morality and natural law

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Universalism

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Put more stress than Unitarianism on importance of social action

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Second Great Awakening

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Religious revival movement in reaction to growth of secularism and rationalist religion
Began prominence of Baptist and Methodist churches

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Burned over district

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Area of western NY strongly influenced by revivalist fervor

Disciples of Christ and Mormons trace roots to here

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Charles Grandison Finney

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Burnt over district evangelist who preached conversion was in the individual

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Oberlin College

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Founded by pious New Englanders
W Ohio
First to admit women and blacks

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Mormons

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Founded by Joseph Smith

Product of burnt over district

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Joseph Smith Jr

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Founded Mormon church, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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Brigham Young

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Successor to Joseph Smith

Led Mormons from IL to Great Salt lake UT

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Romanticism

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Philosophical, literary, and artistic movement of the 19th century
Reaction to rationalism of the previous century
Valued emotion

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Transcendentalism

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Philosophy of a small group of New England writers and thinkers
Plain living and high thinking

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Transcendentalist essayist,

Poet, popular speaker

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Henry David Thoreau

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Transcendentalist writer of Walden, or Life in the Woods

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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New England writer and resident of Salem, MA

Presented moral allegories

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Emily Dickinson

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Poet and recluse living in Amherst, MA

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Washington Irving

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Writing incorporated authentic American themes

Author, short story writer, essayist, poet, biographer, columnist

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James Fenimore Cooper

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Author of leather stocking tales

Features frontiersman Natty Bumppo (hawk eye)

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Master of gothic horror
Inventor of detective story
Fear

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Herman Melville

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Author who wrote of his adventures on the sea

Moby Dick

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Walt Whitman

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Self-taught writer who wrote leaves of grass

Explicit sexual references and didn’t care about rhyme or rhythm

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Horace Greely

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Founding editor of the New York Tribune

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Horace Mann

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Lawyer, statesman, educator promoted idea of public school

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Lyceum movement

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Promoted adult public education through lectures and performances

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Dorothea Dix

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Educator who cared about the mentally ill in jails and almshouses

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