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22 Cards in this Set
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Romanticism |
Movement of liberation of the human spirit |
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Hudson River School of Art |
First school of American painters |
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Sentimental Novels |
Books that gave a voice to women and their anxieties and beliefs |
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Edgar Allen Poe |
Southern Writer Produced sad and macabre novels |
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Southern Romantics |
Produced historical romances of the plantation system of the upper south William Alexander Caruthers John Pendleton |
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Southern Realists |
Depicted backwoods areas Ordinary people and poor whites shown |
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Bringham Young |
Led mormans across land to salt lake city |
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Charles Grandison Finney |
Presbyterian Minister (1820-1830)
Believed Calvinist doctrines of predestination and individual helplessness were obsolete and districtive. Self could achieve salvation |
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Temperance |
Abstinence from alcoholic beverages |
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Chlorea |
Huge Epidemics (1830-1840) Bacterial infection of intestines caused by contaminated food or water |
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Water Cure |
At spas, proposed cure to chlorea Immersing people in hot or cold baths or wrapping them in wet sheets |
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Phrenology |
Shape of individuals skull indicated that person's intelligence. |
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Universal education |
1830 Reflection of innate capacity of every person and society's job to tap that capacity Desire to expose students to social values as way to resist instability |
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The benevolent empire |
Creation of new institutions to help the handicapped |
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Penitentiary movement |
Mental institutions created to provide proper care the the mentally ill |
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Almshouses and warehouses |
Created for the poor Closely supervised place for people who failed to work themselves up in society. Train them to have more productive lives |
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Indian reservations |
Principal motive relocation Secondary motive move them to place where they could develop enough to assimilate into white society |
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Gradulalism |
Organized by the ACS. Gradually freeing slaves,Masters received compensation |
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American Antislavery Society |
Founded by Garrison Also called new England Antislavery Society |
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David Walker |
Free black man from Boston Wrote "Walkers appeal...to the colored citizens" |
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Sojourner Truth |
Free black women Several years in strange religious cult in upstate new York Emerged as powerful and eloquent spokeswoman for abolition of slavery |
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John Brown |
Funded money for bloody uprisings in Kansas and Virginia |
