Chapter 13 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Leader in education reform
Horace Mann
Leader in prison/ asylum reform
Dorothea Dix
Unitarianism
The belief that man is good because god is within man
Universalism
The belief that all will receive salvation because god is too good to withhold salvation from a person
Mormon Church
- founded by Joseph Smith
- the trek to Utah was led by Brigham Young
Transcendentalism
Their goal was to foster spirituality with nature and all people had the capacity to read a divine potential
American Colonization Society
The society that wanted to send freed black to a colony in Africa called Liberia
Deism
The belief that God created the world but he does not interfere with it
Methodists
Everyone could gain salvation, developed the idea of the Circuit Rider
Peter Cartwright
Most successful circuit rider
Charles Finney
Most successful evangelist worked in the burned over district
Teetotaler stood for…
Total abstinence
Auburn penitentiary
The first attempt at a penitentiary that would reform criminals.
A treatise on Domestic Economy
Written by Chatharine Beecher. Accepted women’s sphere was in the kind kitchen
Oneida Community
Utopian society founded by John Humphrey Noyes. Believed in “free love” where everyone was married to everyone.
Brook Farm
Most celebrated utopian society. First secular utopian society. Founded by George Ripley. Mainly a transcendental society.
