(Non-Utopian) Reforms
What war succeeded in eliminating Slavery from the United States?
The Civil War.
Utopian reformers sought to establish small, _______ communities that would serve as role models for _______ at large.
Perfect; Society.
In the 19th century, Americans pursued this art rather than the fine arts
technological
Define Romanticism
Emphasized the emotional, colorful, and the imaginative. Also placed greater stress on the love of nature and on the individual person.
What did Lowell Mason want to bring into American Hymns?
European classical ideals
William H. McGuffey wrote the following book, which taught schoolchildren rules for biblical living along with rules for grammar.
Eclectic Readers.
This was a name given to the inhabitants/followers in the Harmony Society.
"Rappites."
What style did the federalist style more or less copy?
Neoclassical style of Europe
First American writer to gain fame outside of America
James Fenimore Cooper
What did Lowell Mason do?
Hymn writer and Hymn book publisher
The banning of the sale and consumption of alcohol is known as?
Prohibition.
This man bought Harmonie from the rappites and renamed it "New Harmony."
Robert Owen.
Who was America's first great painter?
Benjamin West
Washington Irving helped develop the short story through these two stories:
"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow"
Who wrote "I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair"?
Stephen Foster
In this convention, women came together to pass resolutions calling for various women's rights in 1848. This was known as:
The Secena Falls Convention.
Transcendentalism can be briefly described as a _______, __________ philosophy.
Liberal; Unbiblical.
Who is the nations finest portrait painter?
Gilbert Stuart
An idea some romantic writers loved and others attacked
The goodness and/or godhood of man
America's most important composer in this time.
Stephen Foster
Horace Mann believed that a _____ _____ _________ was deliverance from social issues and ignorance.
Sound Moral Education.
Utopian Reformers ultimately failed due to this:
Their faulty view of the nature of man.
Name one of John Trumbull's famous paintings
"The battle at bunker hill" and "the signing if the Declaration of independence"
When did the Romantic movement begin and end
1820 - 1865
What two Hymns did I mention that Lowell Mason composed the tunes for?
"Nearer my God to thee" and "My faith looks up to thee"