Democratic Politics, Religious Revival, and Reform, 1824-1840 #4

Question 1

Second Great Awakening

Answer 1

Speak to everyone affected by Market Revolution

Individual/Communal redemption

Perfect in society and god’s eyes

hard-work=success

Mormons/Utopian society

Question 2

Mormons

Answer 2

unorthodox

move West

Question 3

Reform movement periods

Answer 3

1830/1840s
2nd Great Awakening

1900/1910s
Populist/Progressive

1960/1970s
Civil Rights

Question 4

Temperance in the 1840s

Answer 4

Only Maine

Part of daily life

Nativism
German/Irish immigrants

Factory owners + politicians want
worker output

Question 5

Asylum Penitentiary Movement

Answer 5

Mentally ill= criminals

Women help mentally ill

Question 6

Horace Mann

Answer 6

1840/1850s

Public education

Essential for Democratic government

Question 7

Transcendentalism

Answer 7

Spiritual/Intellectual

Thoreau

Emerson

Not reform or mainstream

Question 8

Abolitionism

Answer 8

Minority Whites

Huge impact

Question 9

David Walker

Answer 9

pamphlet

resist slavery!

Question 10

WIlliam Lloyd Garrison

Answer 10

Immediate emancipation

The Liberator

Question 11

The Liberator

Answer 11

1830s

Will Lloyd Garrison

Question 12

Most anti-slavery movements

Answer 12

gradual

already-slaves will remain slaves

Lovejoy Incident– abolitionist killed

Question 13

Liberty Party

Answer 13

Abolitionists
1840

Anti-slavery was in the Constitution

Question 14

Frederick Douglass

Answer 14

Abolitionist

born into slavery

learn to read and write

powerful speaker

Question 15

Southern defense of slavery

Answer 15

Northern “wage slaves”

It was in bible etc.

Question 16

Women in antebellum society

Answer 16

intellectually inferior

Cult of domesticity

Femme Covert
give everything to husband when married

Question 17

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 17

First Feminist movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott

issued a Declaration of Sentiments modeled after the Declaration of Independence

Question 18

“Burned over district”

Answer 18

West NY during 2nd GA

because of frequent “hell and brimstone” revivals

Question 19

Baptists and Methodists

Answer 19

Convert South and on the frontier

Largest protestant denominations

Question 20

Peter Cartwright

Answer 20

Methodist converter

2nd GA

Question 21

Emerson

Answer 21

not to imitate European culture

Challenge materialism

Nature

supported various reforms

anti-slavery

Question 22

Thoreau

Answer 22

Civil Disobedience

Didn’t pay tax cuz didn’t believe in war w/ Mexico

Question 23

Brook Farm

Answer 23

Transcendentalist farm

bad fire, heavy debts

innovative school for sons and daughters of NE elites

Question 24

Shakers

Answer 24

ascetic life

women and men separate

Question 25

New Harmony

Answer 25

Utopian Secular

Question 26

Oneida

Answer 26

"free love" | orgies

Question 27

Hudson River school

Answer 27

Celebrate America beauty

Question 28

Architecture

Answer 28

adopt classic Greek styles columns

Question 29

after War of 1812 Literature

Answer 29

Nationalistic Disappointment with religion/social expectations

Question 30

prisons

Answer 30

more to repent solitary confinement high suicide rate--> fail

Question 31

McGuffey reader

Answer 31

set standard Protestant hard work punctuality sobriety emerging industrial society Catholics --> private schools

Question 32

Higher education

Answer 32

prodded by 2nd GA

Question 33

American Colonization Society

Answer 33

Send freed slaves to Africa Liberia

Question 34

phrenology

Answer 34

study of the skull racist as hell

Question 35

Nat Turner

Answer 35

retaliation: hundreds of Blacks killed set precedence for Southern violence against Blacks

Question 36

lyceum lectures

Answer 36

spread and popularize knowledge

Question 37

Emerson's American Scholar

Answer 37

Americans should work for cultural autonomy

Question 38

``` Who would NOT have supported the Whigs Southern advocates of nullification Northern temperance reformers Anti-Masons Irish immigrants ```

Answer 38

Irish immigrants (Catholic)

Question 39

Antebellum farmers

Answer 39

hard to make enough $$ to buy own farms

Question 40

Newspapers became popular in the early 1800s

Answer 40

Printing press penny novels

Question 41

Force Bill

Answer 41

use arms to collect customs duties from Nullification crisis