Chapter 15 The American Pageant

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Catherine Beecher

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Called on american inventors to improve life for homemaker

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Thomas Jefferson was a great ____ and designed _______

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architect----Monticello

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Gilbert Stewart

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One of best american painters of time
Many portraits of Geaorge Washington

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Charles Willson Peale

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60 portraits of Washington

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Hudson River School of Art

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Emphasized romantic mirrorings of local landscapes.

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Stephen Foster

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Wrote famous black songs ("darky tunes")

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Knickerbocker Group

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Boasted some of greatest early writers

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Washington Irving

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First American to win international recognition as a literary figure.
Rip Van Winkle...The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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James Fenimore Cooper

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First American novelist to gain world fame.
"The Last of the Mohicans"

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Transcendentalism

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Philosophy-Truth "transcends" the senses: cannot be found by empiricism alone.
Every person possesses inner light that can put them in direct touch with God
Commitment to self-reliance, self-culture, and self-discipline.
Hostile to formal institutions of any kind and conventional wisdom.

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Ralph Wadlo Emerson

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Advocate for Transcendentalism

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Henry David Thoreau

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Advocate of Transcendentalism.
Essay on Civil Disobedience

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Walt Whitman

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"Leaves on Grass"

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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One of most popular poets ever produced in america.
"Paul Revere's Ride"

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Edgar Allen Poe

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American Short Story writer

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Emily Dickenson

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Poet

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Louisa May Alcott

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Wrote "little Women"
Advocate for Women's Rights

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"The Scarlet Letter"

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Herman Melville

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"Moby Dick" "Typee" "Billy Budd"

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Newspaper bolstered by_____

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increased literacy

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Gutter Journalism

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Tabloid that focused on bad-moral stories

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Horace Greeley

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Editor and owner of New York Tribune.
-incredibly influential on forming public opinion.
-Merciliess foe of slavery
-Increased public knowledge=increased ability to make democracy work.

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John J. Audubon

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American Scientist

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Cult of Domesticity

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Glorified traditional function of homemaker(women).

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Women are ____ off than before, and than European women

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Better off

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Women & work

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Many women started working (schoolteachers etc.)
Left their job upon marriage

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New Harmony

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Utopia site of about 1000 led but Robert Owen
First Kindergarten
First free public school
First free public library

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Brook Farm

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Utopian site
"Plain living and high thinking"
Nathaniel Hawthorne a resident.

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Oneida Colony

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Radical Utopian Society

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Shakers

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United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
longenst surviving cult
Communal living
Believed in celibacy(no marriage, no free-love) & equality

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Amelia Bloomer

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Popularized 'bloomers'
-Women's Rights-

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Seneca Falls Convention

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1848-Women's Right Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott & Susan B. Anthony
"Declaration of Sentiments"
Launched Modern Day Woman's Rights Movement

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Deism

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Relied on reason rather than revalation
Relied on science rather than bible
Rejected Original Sin & Christ's Divinity

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Unitarianism

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God exists in One Supreme Being
God-a loving Father, not stern Creator.

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Effects of Second Great Awakening

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Lead to new reform movements:
Prison
Temperance
Women's Rights
Abolition

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"Camp meeting"

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Spread Religious ideals (Methodists, Baptists) through large meetings of up to 25,000

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Peter Cartwright

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Methodist "Circuit Rider"(traveling preacher)

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Charles Grandison Finney

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Greatest revival preacher.
Inspired Education, temperance, abolition reform.

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Burned-Over District

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Western NY Puritans
"Hellfire" sermons

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Adventists (Millerites)

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Led by William Miller
Thought Christ would return oct 22, 1844

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What areas were most affected by revivalism?

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Less prosperous, less "learned" areas
Rural South & West

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Who Founded the Morman Church?

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Joseph Smith-1830

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Mormans were the Church of __________

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Latter Day Saints

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Who led the Mormans to Salt Lake City?

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Brigham Young 1846-1847

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American Temperance Society

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Formed in Boston in 1826

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Republican Motherhood

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Women seen as keepers of society's conscience with special responsibility to teach children how to be good & productive citizens

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Sarah Grimke

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Writer for Women's Rights

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Angelina Grimke

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Speaker against slavery
For Women's Rights

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Lucy Stone

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Women's Rights advocate
Kept last name upon marrying
(Lucy Stoners)

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Horace Mann

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Father Of Modern Education
Key to reform was better education

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Noah Webster

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Dictionary-standardized American English

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Emma Willard

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Female College 1821

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Oberlin College

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Open to Men & Women & Blacks

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American Peace Society

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Agitated for peace until Crimean War and Civil War

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Dorothea Dix

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Fought for better treatment of Mentally Handicapped.