American Culture
Who published the American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828?
Noah Webster
What religious movement sparked widespread Protestant revivals in the early 1800s?
The Second Great Awakening
What reform movement sought to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption?
The temperance movement
What reform movement sought to end slavery in the United States?
Abolitionism
What 1848 convention formally called for women's equality and voting rights?
The Seneca Falls Convention
What artistic movement emphasized emotion, individualism, and nature over reason?
Romanticism
Which two Protestant denominations grew rapidly through camp meetings and revivals?
Methodists and Baptists
What organization, founded in 1826, promoted the reduction of alcohol consumption?
The American Temperance Society
Who published the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator in 1831?
William Lloyd Garrison
What document issued at Seneca Falls demanded equal rights for women?
The Declaration of Sentiments
Who wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”?
Washington Irving
Which preacher led influential religious revivals in Rochester, New York, in 1830?
Charles Grandison Finney
What 1851 state law prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages?
The Maine Law
What antislavery organization was founded in 1833 to promote immediate emancipation?
The American Anti-Slavery Society
Which two women helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
What philosophical movement emphasized intuition, self-reliance, and the spiritual power of nature?
Transcendentalism
Who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Joseph Smith
What type of experimental community promoted cooperative living and an ideal society?
A utopian community
Who escaped slavery, published an autobiography in 1845, and founded The North Star in 1847?
Frederick Douglass
What antislavery political party was founded in 1840?
The Liberty Party
Which author argued for resisting unjust government policies in Civil Disobedience?
Henry David Thoreau
Who led thousands of Mormons west to the Great Salt Lake after Joseph Smith's death?
Brigham Young
What community, founded in 1848, promoted communal property and complex marriage?
The Oneida community
What 1836 congressional rule restricted discussion of antislavery petitions?
The gag rule
What political party formed in 1848 to oppose slavery's expansion into western territories?
The Free-Soil Party