Religious Discrimination and Intolerance
what was the religious movement in the early 1800s called?
the Second Great Awakening
who was the founder of the Mormons?
Joseph Smith
what are the name of two well-known utopian communities?
New Harmony and Brook farm
in the 1780s who created the American Spelling Book?
Noah Webster
who was Dorothea Dix?
she was an american reformer
how long did the Second Great Awakening Last?
nearly half a century
what two states were the Mormons kicked out of?
Ohio and Missouri
what is the name of an isolated settlement established to achieve the goal of moral perfection?
utopias
since the colonial times who taught most of the American kids?
their parents
why did Dorothea Dix begin to teach sunday school at Massachusetts prison?
she found out that mentally illed people were housed along criminals
where did the Second Great Awakening of the early 1800s begin?
on the frontier of Kentucky
after the Mormons were kicked out of their states where did they settle?
Illinois
which group developed a new way to look at humanity, nature, and God?
Transcendentalists
what was the purpose of public school movements?
to provide greater educational opportunities
what did people think prisons were for?
to punish criminals
what are the two purposes of the Christian Sabbath?
who kicked the mormons out of their states?
neighbors
where did the shakers set up their independent villages?
New York, Ohio, and Illinois
who played the key roles in the school reform movements?
Women
what was the Temperance Movement?
it was aimed to stop alcohol abuse
who was an influential revivalist that was a professor in theology
Charles Grandison Finney
why were the Mormons economically powerful?
because they held land as a group
why was Henry David Thoreau sent to jail?
he refused to pay to pay taxes to support the Mexican-American War
where were established schools for women established?
Connecticut, Ohio, and New York
why did Neal Dow earn a worldwide reputation?
he was famous for his lectures on alcohol abuse