history chap 8 section 1 Flashcards
(10 cards)
What ideas and practices did the Unitarian movement promote?
Based on REASON not emotion
- faith in individuals
- gradual conversion
What ideas and practices did revivalism promote?
- dramatic religious conversations or revival
- promotes deep emotion
- always goes back to religion
What ideas and practices did the African Methodist episcopal church promote?
- based on EMOTION
- strongly Apposed slavery
- strong community
- social services
What ideas and practices did transcendentalism promote?
- wanted to find religion
- wanted personal and private experience
- nature
- emotion and imagination
________ & ____________ have biggest growths
Methodist and Baptist
Two main transcendentalist…. what did they write
Emerson: wrote American scholar
Thoreau: wrote “on the duty of civil disobedience” & “Walden”
What did the movement to reform education accomplish?
More kids going to school and a tax supported public school system
4 Social ills troubleshooting the nation:
- prison reform
- temperance
- woman’s rights
- slavery
What were the accomplishments of the movement to reform asylums and prisons?
- public hospitals for the mentally ill
- improved prison conditions
- greater acceptance for those rehabilitated and brought back to society
What were the purposes of utopian communities?
Ex: mormons, brook farm
- To create a self sufficient community
- came from perfect perfect experience
