Religious Revival
During the Second Great Awakening Charles Grandison Finney was
one of the most famous and most controversial travelling preachers
When the 19th century america grew larger, richer, and more diverse, it was also trying to accomplish a culture that was
distant and not following any in Europe
Although women had many moral obligations and duties in the home, church and community, they had few of this
political and legal rights
this year also marked the beginning of the superintendence of Dr. John Galt at Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first publicly supported psychiatric hospital in America.
1841
Before ____, there was no such thing as an art museum open to the public
1830
charles told people he could
change their lives
local communities create different clubs so they could talk about
common interests and ideas.
What was Abigail Adams warning called?
Remember the Ladies!
After the War of ____, reformers from Boston and New York began a crusade to remove children from jails into juvenile detention centers.
1812
Artists began to create work for the enjoyment of the Middle Class. Soon, it became as common to see a painting over the _________ of a home
fireplace
Charles told people that he was predestined to what
Salvation or damnation
People speculated if any society were completely reorganized, it could be
regenerated and be perfected
Women could not do this without the dependents of men
make contracts, own property, or vote.
After being locked down in solitary, many of the eighty men committed this
suicide or had mental breakdowns.
In ____, the American Art Union was created to raise money for artists' salaries
1839
The Amazing assurance that life on earth had its own
reward
Utopia, originally a Greek word for an imaginary place where everyone and everything is perfect, was sought in America through the creation of model communities within this society
greater society.
what movement did the Activists call for rallying around
abolitionist movement
After several bad starts, America finally enjoyed about a ______ of real reform
decade
this person had no formal training as an artist. He could not draw a likeness, or any real figure for that matter. But he understood something his peers did not.
Cole Thomas
The assurance that life on earth has its own rewards was not just a way station to the road to
heaven or hell
Most of the original utopias were created for religious purposes. One of the earliest was devised by George Rapp, a zealot, considering only God as their ruler, who took 600 followers to western Pennsylvania in
1804
When Elizabeth Cady Stanton returned to America
1848
Their goal was prison libraries for this type of reading
Bible reading
While artists had been painting Americans for over a century, no one had painted _______ before.
America scenery