Society Culture Ad Reform Flashcards
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Who was involved in the second great awakening?
Reverend timothy dwight
What did these movements emerge in response to
Industrial growth, increasing immigration, western expansion, ad new means of communication
What was the goal of the second great awakening
They were trying to change the ciews of people and believe in calvinism
Was the second great awakening successful?
Yes because the movements were becoming more attured with american society
Who was involved with revivalism
Charles G Finney
What was the goal of revivalism
To persuade people to publicly declare their revived faith and hard work and oppose the middle class
Who was involved in the baptists and methodists reform
Peter cartwright
What was the goal of the baptist and methodist reform
To convert all of the un churched into respectable members of the community
Was the baptist and methodist movement a success
Yes because they had become the largest protestant denominations in the country
Who was involved in the millenialism reform
A preacher named william miller
What was the goal of the millenialism reform
To make people believe that the end of the world would end in october 1844 and gained thousands of followers only to be disappointed when nothing happened
Was the millenialism reform successful?
Yes because they created a religion called the seventh day Adventists
Who was involved with the morman reform
Joseph Smith in 1830 and escaped persecution under Brigham young and moved to utah salt lake city
What was goal of the morman reform
They wanted to spread their belief that there was was a connection between native americans and the lost tribes of israel
What did Ralph Waldo Emerson want?
He wanted to evoke the nationalistic spirit of americans by urging them not to imitate european culture
What did Henry Davis Thoreau do,
he used observations of nature to discover essential truths
What was the goal of temperance
They wanted to persuade drinkers to pledge total abstinence of alchohol and ban it
What was he lasting achievement of temperance
By 1840 temperance societies had more than a million people and alcohol was legally banned
What was the goal of reforming the public asylums
Rehabilitation
Who was involved in the mental hospital reform and what did they want
Dorothea dix didnt want mentally ill people locked up with convicted criminals in unsanitary cells
What Accomplishments was made to the mental hospitals
Mental institutions were built and were improved, the people started receiving professional help
Who was involved in the reform for school for deaf and blind people
Thomas Gaullaudet founded a school for the deaf and Dr Samuel Gridley Howe founded a school for the blind
What was the goal of the Free Common school reform
To create tax payer funded education
Who was involved with the free common school reform
Horace Mann was the leading advocate
