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HX Chpt 11 Flashcards

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the man who was sent over to America by John Wesley, he was the leader of the circuit riders in New England

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Francis Asbury

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a Presbyterian teacher from NC who largely influend revival of Kentucky

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James McGready

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one of the greatest methodist circuit riders

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Peter Cartwright

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the best known evangelist of the Second Great Awakening

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Charles g finney

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greatly influenced the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal

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Richard allen

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organized Mormonism in 1830 in western NY

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Joseph smith

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one of the most outspoken proponents of darwinism and religious unbelief

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Robert green ingersoll

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one of the first missionaries to be dispatched by the American Board

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adoniram judson

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founded a utopian community in Indiana called New Harmony

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Robert owen

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they helped found Liberia in 1822, and also became the first missionaries to Liberia

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lott Carey and Colin Teague

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founded the Five Points Mission and distributed gospel tracts in the poor areas of NYC

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Phoebe palmer

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a woman who worked to improve the treatment of mentally ill people

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Dorothea l dix

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captained for the social,political, and economical equality for women, and organized the first women’s rights convention

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Elizabeth candy Stanton and Lucretia mott

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lectured in many northern states about women’s rights

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Susan b Anthony

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a former slave from NY that lectured under a fake name

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sojourner truth

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a country schoolteacher that wrote the blue backed speller and greatly influenced several American gens

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Noah Webster

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a Cherokee man who invented a written language for the cherokee

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Sequoya

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wrote the eclectic readers

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william h McGuffey

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a black American woman who started NYC’s first Sunday school program

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Catherine Ferguson

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one of society’s greatest Sunday school missionaries

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stephen paxson

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promoted the idea of public school for children

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horace mann

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fathered the lyceum movement in the US

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Josiah holbrook

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one of the fireside poets who is the only American poet in the Westminster abbey

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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one of the fireside poets that expressed a deep christian faith in all of his poems

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John Greenleaf whittier

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a fireside poet who was noted for his patriotic verse and good common sense

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Oliver Wendell holmes

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a fireside poet who had powerful patriotic verse. worked in foreign diplomacy, law, and linguistics

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James Russel Lowell

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wrote many exciting tales about dutch settlers along the Hudson river

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Washington Irving

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introduced the detective story as a form of literature

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Edgar Allen poe

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often considered to have written the first truly American novel

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James fenimore cooper

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wrote many works of fiction, including the Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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spent several years whaling and living among Polynesians, wrote Moby dick

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Herman Melville

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popularized transcendentalism

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Ralph waldo emerson

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an Emerson follower, wrote a book called Walden

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Henry David Thoreau

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a trancesndental author, wrote a collection of poems that portrayed his attempts to commune with nature

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Walt Whitman

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their newspapers (NY tribune and NY herald) were competing in the NYC area

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James Gordon Bennet and Horace greely

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best known American composer of the time and the first professional songwriter who wrote many songs of the South

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stephen foster

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musical educator who carried on the tradition of the singing school

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Lowell mason

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best remembered for his many George Washington portraits

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Gilbert Stuart

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helped found the Academy of fine Arts in Philadelphia

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Charles Wilson peale

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a circuit riding preacher whose painting became popular b/c of their simplicity

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Edward hicks

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the greatest landscape painter in the west

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Robert s duncanson

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painted many of the birds of American forests

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John James Audubon

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remembered for taking portraits of the various classes and cultures of society

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Augustus washington

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a french thinker who was impressed at the way American religion and freedom coexisted

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Alexis de tocqueville

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where the most notable camp meeting took place at in 1801

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cane ridge, Kentucky

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most well known utopian community that failed after 2 years

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new harmony

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where the first women’s rights convention was held at

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Seneca falls

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a communal living experiment near Boston that was done by some New England intellectuals during the transcendentalism movement

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Brook farm

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the largest city in the antebellum south

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new Orleans

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year that Maine outlawed the used of liquor

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1846

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the year that the first women’s rights convention was held

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1848

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evangelists who rode regular routes on horseback and preached at various points along the way

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circuit riders

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a religious service of several day’s length, held outdoors, groups obliged to take shelter on the spot b/c of the distance from home

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camp-meeting revival

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these people follow what is known today as adventism, followed a baptist minister who preached on Christ’s imminent return to earth

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millerites

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denied the trinity and man’s sin nature, and took root in many New England churches and schools

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unitarianism

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church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, founded by joseph Smith

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mormonism

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organized in 1826 in NY, began to distribute pamphlets that warned against alcohol

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American temperance union

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first settlement house in NYC, founded by Phoebe palmer

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five points mission

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the movement that had the most profound effects on American HX,

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abolition

57
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women’s rights to vote

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suffrage

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the philosophy that education was basically the same as the reformers,puritans, and a majority of Christians used throughout hx

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traditional education

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where most children attended school under one teacher

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one room schoolhouse

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the largest single volume seller during the nineteenth century, by Noah webster

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blue backed speller

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the most widely used and distributed series of schoolbooks in America, written by William h McGuffey

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eclectic readers

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founded by a group of Christians in 1817, this organization distributed Christian reading material and helped people establish church bible studies for children

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American Sunday school union

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the first state uni to began operating

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uni of NC

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first college to open doors to women

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Oberlin college

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first women’s only college

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Wesleyan college

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two programs instituted in the 1800s to educate the general public

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libraries and lyceums

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this was an era for American literature that was characterized by romantic literature, first half of the nineteenth century

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romantic era

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a group of poets who’s poems were popular in American homes, poems emphasized family value and patriotism

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fireside poets

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teaches that man is divine and can overcome reason by trusting in himself and in his own abilities, founded by Ralph waldo emerson

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transcendentalism

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a unique rhythm of music to praise that was produced by Christian slaves, one of the greatest American contributions to the field of music

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negro spiritual

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a group of painters that became known for their landscape paintings of scenes along the Hudson river

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Hudson River school

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grew a lot of cash crops, had slaves and overseers in the deep south

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plantations

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two main types of organization on a plantation

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gang system, task system

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a place in town that had all of the essentials, that was a place of business and conversation

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general store

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