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"We Americans will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds."
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Emerson
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"There was not a reading man who was without some scheme for a new utopia in his waistcoat pocket"
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Emerson
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"no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a great influence over the soul of men than in America"
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Tocqueville
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Paine released another book that declared churches were... name of book also
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The Age of Reason
"churches were set up to terrify and enslave mankind" |
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Paine, jefferson and franklin embraced what. what was the principle
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Deism, relied on reason rather than revelation
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New spinoff of Puritans
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Unitarians believed that God was one person, jesus not holy, essential goodness of people
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Three things Second awake led to
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prison reform, women's movement, and crusade to abolish slavery
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Where did people meet at during second awake?
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camp meetings
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Revivalism helped who the most?
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Baptists and Methodists
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Who founded Oberlin college?
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Charles Finney
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Who was the great of rivival preachers?
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Finney
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What did he create?
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anxious bench where repentant sinners could sit during service
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Famous Finney lecture
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Hindrances to Revivals
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What did Western new york come to be known as?
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Burned over district
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Who rose from this district? What did they believe would happen?
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Millerities... believed Christ would return October 22, 1844
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What was the order of succession?
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first churches split, then parties, then union
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Who founded the Mormons?
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Joseph Smith
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Who followed Smith after his death?
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Brigham Young
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What did Mormons do that angered others?
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voted as group
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What did the Mormons see as a miracle in Utah?
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crickets threatened crop, seagull came and ate them all
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What still stands in Salt Lake because of this?
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monument to seagulls
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What was republican slogan 1856?
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duty to prohibit slavery and polygamy
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What was the "mormon Corridor"?
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Salt Lake to socal
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"A civilized nation both ignorant and free never was and never will be"
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TJ
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what were the three r's
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readin' ritin' rithmetic
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Who campaigned in Mass for better pub schools?
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Mann
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Who was "Schoolmaster of the republic"
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Noah Webster
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Who founded U of V?
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TJ
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What was the first college to open doors to men/women/blacks?
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Oberlin College Ohio
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Group of lecturers named the
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lyceum lecture associations
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Popular woman's magazine?
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Godey's Lady's Book
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People believe prisons should reform as well as punish.. prisons renamed to:
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penitentiaries, house of correction
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Who proved insanity was not part of sin?
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Dorothea Dix
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What happened at the Auburn Prison?
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Prisons were put on stepping mill (sort of like stairmaster) to stay fit and have something to do
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Lead spirit of American peace society
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William Ladd
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Rum named:
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Old Deluder
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Society estab to prevent drinking?
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American temperance society
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"Father of Prohibition"
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Neal S Dow
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Maine Law of 1851 named
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"the law of Heaven Americanized"
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What did Tocqueville notice about crime in America?
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rape was a serious offense in US not france
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Society formed for women's rights?
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Nation Woman Suffrage Asso
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Woman's special sphere circuled around
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cult of domesticity
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Quaker reared Susan B Anthony fearless preached ideas... people became known as
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Suzy Bs
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Who was the first female grad of medical college?
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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Expression for people who keep maiden name
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Lucy Stoners
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Woman's Right Convention at Seneca Falls NY introduced
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Declaration of Sentiments
all men and women are created equal |
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Popular attire for short period that was less formal... not corset
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bloomer costume
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Where did the modern women's right moveemtne begin?
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Seneca Falls
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First state to all wives to own property after marriage?
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MISS
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List 4 utopias and describe founder:
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New Harmony: Robert Owen
Brook Farm: committed to transcendentalism Oneida Community: complex marriage, superior offspring, steel traps Shakers: Ann Lee, prohib sex and marriage |
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Founder of Oneida community?
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John Noyes
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"The more we get acquainted with God, the more we shall find it our special duty to be happy."
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Noyes
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"Bible Communism"
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Oneida comm
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Noyes formed the ____ in the comm as extended family.
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Putney Associ.
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Oneida involved in
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mutual criticism
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"I was metaphorically stood upon my head and allowed to drain till al self righteousness had dripped out of me" refers to what
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mutual criticism
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Still stands today from Oneida comm?
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Big Hall
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Oneidan comm grew into what
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Oneida Community Ltd leading manufacturer of stainless steel utensils
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Who said medicines would be better in the sea?
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Holmes
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What was first early advertisement for?
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pain reliver, Pitcher
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Finest examples of american arch at?
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U of V by TJ
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"he would not give a sixpence for a bust of Phidias or a painting by Raphael"
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John Adams
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School that excelled in romantic landscapes.
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Hudson River School
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What ruined some paintings?
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invention of crude photograph; daguerreotype
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First American with international recognition as a literary writer?
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Washing Irving
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Who wrote Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
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Irving
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"The first ambassador whom the New World of letters sent to the Old"
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Irving
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First American novelist?
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James Cooper
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"the athens of america"
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Boston
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transcendentalism:
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everyone person had inner light that can illuminate highest truth
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Best known trans
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Emerson
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Famous speech by Emerson named... at...
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Phi Beta Kappa address called "The American Scholar"
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"The less government the better- the fewer laws, and the less confided power" "to be great is to be misunderstood" "Every hero becomes a bore at last" "Shallow men believe in luck" "When you strike a king you must kill him"
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Emerson
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Term refers to poetry that celebrates the poss of American life and unbridled personal freedoms
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whitmanesque
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Writer who influenced Luther and Gandhi?
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Thoeau
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"Poet Laureate of Democracy"
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Whitman
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Wrote leaves of grass?
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Whitman
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"the hub of the universe"
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Boston
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Wrote Little Woman?
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Alcott
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"the Cooper of the South"
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William Simms
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Suffered from alcohol and died early?
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Wrote Moby Dick
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Melville
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Main char in Moby Dick?
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Captain Ahab
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"father of american history"
founded naval academy at annapolis |
George Bancroft
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Finish the quote "The history of the US has been written by Boston"
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"and largely written wrong"
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