Second Great Awakening
This movement emphasized personal faith and emotional revival.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The movement to limit or eliminate alcohol consumption.
What is temperance?
This teacher and writer created the Blue-Backed Speller.
Who is Noah Webster?
The American era of literature emphasizing emotion, imagination, and individuality.
By 1850, more than this percentage of Americans lived on farms or in small towns.
What is 80%?
Traveling preachers who spread Methodism on horseback were called?
Who are circuit riders?
This woman helped improve treatment for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Author of the Eclectic Readers, widely used in American schools.
Who is William McGuffey?
Author of The Scarlet Letter.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This southern agricultural system required slaves to complete assigned tasks before earning free time.
What is the task system?
He was the leader of Methodist circuit riders in New England.
The first women's rights convention was held here in 1848.
What is Seneca Falls, New York?
He created a written language for the Cherokee people.
Who is Sequoya?
He painted many American birds and studied mammals in the wild.
Who is John James Audubon?
A store in small towns that sold goods, hosted community meetings, and often acted as a post office.
What is a general store?
The famous evangelist converted as my as 500,000 people and was called the Father of Modern Revivalism.
Who is Charles G. Finney?
This former slave spoke against slavery under the name Sojourner Truth.
Who is Isabella Baumfree?
The first teacher-training school was call a ___________ school.
What is a normal school?
Famous songwriter of over 200 songs including "Oh! Susana."
Who is Stephen Foster?
By 1860, this percentage of Americans live in cities.
What is 20%?
A long, outdoor religious meeting pioneered by James McGready on the frontier was called?
What is a camp-meeting revival?
The most significant 19th-century reform movement, which divided northern and southern churches
What is the abolition movement?
This college was the first in the U.S. to admit women.
What is Oberlin College?
This group of artists painted landscapes along the Hudson River.
Who is the Hudson River School?
French thinker impressed by American religion and freedom.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?