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59 Cards in this Set
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Liberal religious belief, held by many of the Founding Fathers, that stressed rationalism and moral behavior then Christian revelation
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Deism
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p. 329
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Religious revival that began on the frontier and swept eastward, stirring en evangelical spirit in many areas of American life
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The Second Great Awakening
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p. 330
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The two religious denominations that benefited from the evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century
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Methodist and Baptists
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p. 330
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Religious group founded by Joseph Smith that eventually established a cooperative commonwealth in Utah
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Mormons; Church of Latter Day Saints
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p. 332
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Memorable 1848 meeting in New York where women made an appeal based on the Declaration of Indepedence
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Women's Rights Convention
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p. 340
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Commune established in New Harmony, Indiana by Scottish industrialist Robert Owen
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Utopia
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p. 341
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Intellectual commune in Massachusetts based on "plain living and high thinking"
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The Brook Farm experiment
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p. 341
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Jefferson's stately home in Virginia, which became a model of American classical architecture
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Monticello
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p. 346
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New York literary movement that drew on both local and national themes
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Knickerbocker group?
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p. 348
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Philosophical and literary movement, centered in New England, that greatly influenced many American writers of the early nineteenth century
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Transcendentalist movement
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p. 348
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The doctine, promoted by American writer Henry David Thoreau in an essay of the same name, that later influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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p. 350
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Walt Whitman's shocking collection of emotionals poems
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Leaves of Grass
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p. 350
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A disturbing New England masterpiece about adultery and guilt in the old Puritan era
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The Scarlet Letter; Nathaniel Hawthorne
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p. 352
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The great but commercially unsuccessful novel about Captain Ahab's obsessive pursuit of a white whale
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Moby Dick; Herman Melville
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p. 352
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The masterpiece of New England writer Louisa May Alcott
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Little Women (1868)
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p. 352
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Radical New York commune that practiced "complex marriage" and eugenic birth control
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Oneida colony
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Bold, unconventional poet who celebrated American democracy
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Whitman?
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The "Mormon Moses" who led persecuted Latter Day Saints to their promised land in Utah
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Brigham Young
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Influential evangelical revivalist of the Second Great Awakening
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Charles G. Finney
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New York writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpience
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James Fenimore Cooper
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Long-lived early American religious sect that attracted thousands of members to its celibate communities
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Shakers
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Idealistic Scottish industrialist whose attempt at communal utopia failed
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Robert Owen
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Second-rate poet and philosopher, but first-rate promoter of transcendentalist ideals and American culture and scholarship
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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p. 349
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Eccentric southern-born genius whose tales of mystery, suffering and the supernatural departed from general American literary trends
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Edger Allen Poe
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Reclusive New England poet who wrote about love, death, and immortality
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Emily Dickinson
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Quietly determined reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill
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Dorothea Dix
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p. 337
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Leading feminist who wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments" in 1848 and pushed for women's suffrage
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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p. 340
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Novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family
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Louisa May Alcott
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Path-breaking American novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization
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Herman Melville
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p. 352
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Quaker women's rights advocates who also strongly supported abolition of slavery
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Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott
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Best known of the Methodist "circuit riders" or travelling frontier preachers. Called upon sinners to repent from Tennessee to Illinois
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Peter Cartwright
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p. 330
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Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He campaigned effectively for better education
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Horace Mann
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p. 334
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"Schoolmaster of the Republic" He improved textbooks
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Noah Webster
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p. 335
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Women's schools at secondary level becan to attain some respectability in thw 1820s, thanks to to the dedicatedd work of _. In 1821, she established TROY FEMALE SEMINARY
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Emma Willard
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p. 335
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Established Mount Holyoke Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts (women's school)
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Mary Lyon
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p. 335
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Created in 1828; society with a ringing declaration of war on war. Leaders: William Ladd
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American Peace Society
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p. 338
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The Senenca Falls Convention launched the modern women's rights movement with its call for
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Equal rights, including the right to vote
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p. 340
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The Brook Farm experiment inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel: _ whose main character was modeled on the feminist writer Margaret Fuller
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The Blithedale Romance (1852)
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p. 341
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Rhode Islander artist who produced several American portraits of Washington
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Gilbert Stuart
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p. 346
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Marylander who painted 60 portraits or Washington
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Wilson Peale
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p. 346
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Artist who recaptured scenes and spirit on scores of striking canvases.
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John Trumbull
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p. 346
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After War 1812, American painters of portraits turned increasingly from human landscpares to
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Mirroring of local landscapes (Hudson River school excelled in this art)
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p. 346
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Contributed to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves
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Stephen C. Foster
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p. 347
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First American to win internatioanl recognition as a literary figure. Published Knickerbocker's History of New York
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Washington Irving
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p. 348
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Many of the American utopian experiments of the early nineteenth century focused on
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communal economics and alternative sexual arrangements
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p. 341
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"Father of American History" He published a spirited, superpatriotic history of the US to 1789
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George Bancott
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p. 353
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"Father of American History" He published a spirited, superpatriotic history of the US to 1789
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George Bancott
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p. 353
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Cause: The Second Great Awakening
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Cause: The Mormon practice of polygamy
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Effect: Aroused persecution from morally traditionalist Americans and delayed statehood for Utah
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Cause: Women abolitionists' anger at being ignored by male reformers
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Effect: Led to expanding te crusade for equal rights to include women
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Cause: The women's rights movement
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Cause: Unrealistic expectations and conflict within perfectionist communes
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Effect: Caused most utopian experiments to decline or collapse in a few years
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Cause: The Knickerbocker and transcendentalist use of new American themes in their writing
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Effect: Created the first literature genuinely native to America
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Cause: Henry David Thoreau's theory of "civil disobience"
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Effect: Inspired later practitioners of nonviolence like Ghandi and King
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Cause: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
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Effect: Captured in one long poem the exuberant and optimistic spirit of popular American democracy
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Cause: Herman Melville's and Edgar Allen Poe's concern with evil and suffering
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Effect: Made their works little understood in their lifetimes by generally optimistic Americans
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Cause: The Trascendentalist movement
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Effect: Helped inspire writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Magaret Fuller
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Period before the civil war
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Antebellum Period
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p. 202 s
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Community based off Charles Fourier's theories of people sharing work and living arrangements
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Fourier Phalanxes
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p. 206 s
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