Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Either/Or
100
Frontier life was especially difficult for this group of people.
Who were women?
100
The region of western New York State that experienced especially frequent and intense revivals.
What is the "Burned-Over District"?
100
An American painter who developed the idea for a national park system.
Who was George Catlin?
100
He founded the Mormon religion.
Who was Joseph Smith?
100
The Knickerbocker Group.
Who were Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant?
200
Under the age of 30.
How old was over half the population of America as late as 1850?
200
She worked for the better treatment of the mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
200
The two main sources of European immigration to America in the 1840's and 1850's.
Who were the Irish and Germans?
200
The Oneida, Brook Farm, and Shakers.
What were 3 Utopian societies?
200
The advent of the women's rights movement.
What is the significance of Seneca Falls in 1848?
300
One of the things that defined and distinguished America as a new nation?
How did Americans come to look at the western wilderness?
300
The tendency toward rationalism and indifference in religion that was reversed around 1800.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
300
An up-surge of anti-Catholicism.
What was one consequence of the influx of new immigrants?
300
Two denominations that especially gained adherents among the common people of the west and south.
What is Methodists and Baptists.
300
The primary economic activity in the Rocky Mountain West before the Civil War.
What is fur-trapping?
400
There was a shortage of labor, capital, and consumers.
Why was industrialization slow to arrive in America?
400
The split of Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians into separate northern and southern churches.
What was the major effect of the growing slavery controversy on the churches?
400
Wages for most workers rose in the early 19th Century, except for these most exploited workers.
Who were women and children?
400
The major promoter of an effective tax-supported system of public education for all American children.
Who was Horace Mann?
400
A decline in the average number of children per household.
What was a major change affecting the American family in the early 19th Century?
500
The South specialized in cotton, the West in grain and livestock, and the East in manufacturing.
What was the regional "division of labor"?
500
The sharp division of labor that separated women at home from men in the workplace.
What is one cause of women's subordination in 19th Century America?
500
This was the main factor contributing to the rapid population growth in the 1840's and beyond.
What is widespread immigration?
500
Two leading female imaginative writers who added to New England's literary prominence.
Who were Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson?
500
This celebrated the power of the individual spirit.
What is transcendentalism?
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