Religious revival characterized by emotional mass “camp meetings” and widespread conversion. Brought about a democratization of religion as a multiplicity of denominations vied for members.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
At this Utopian community, adherents refused to use or consume anything that harmed a living being.
What was Fruitlands?
100
Quaker, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate who helped to set-up the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
What is/was Lucretia Mott?
100
American artistic movement that produced romantic renditions of local landscapes.
What was the Hudson River School?
100
Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves.
What is/was the "Black Belt"?
200
Communal society of around one thousand members, established in New Harmony, Indiana by Robert Owen.
What is/was New Harmony?
200
Founded in Boston in 1826 as part of a growing effort of nineteenth-century reformers to limit alcohol consumption.
What is/was the American Temperance Society?
200
New England reformer most known for their effort on behalf of prison and asylum reform.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
Early national style of architecture that borrowed from neoclassical models and emphasized symmetry, balance, and restraint. Famous builders associated with this style included Charles Bulfinch and Benjamin Latrobe.
What is Federal Style?
200
Only about _____% of white southerners owned slaves or belonged to a slave-owning family.
What is 25?
300
The idea of free public education as an essential component of American democracy grew in the early nineteenth century with the influence of Thomas Jefferson and _____?
Who is Horace Mann?
300
Abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison were seen as "radical" by many because of their belief in?
What is immediatism?
300
Brought the Shaker religion to America in 1774.
Who was Mother Ann Lee?
300
Popular name for Western New York, a region particularly swept up in the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening.
What is the Burned-Over District?
300
Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites and raised fears among white Southerners of further uprisings.
What was Nat Turner's rebellion?
400
Incendiary abolitionist track advocating the violent overthrow of slavery. Published by David Walker, a Southern-born free black.
What is the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?
400
What reform movement would have held cooperative social and economic practices as their founding ideal?
What was the utopianism/communitarianism movement?
400
Became a martyr for the abolitionist cause when he was killed by a pro-slavery crowd while defending his printing press.
Who was Elijah P. Lovejoy?
400
Helped to standardize the American language.
What was Noah Webster's dictionary?
400
Concept that viewed slavery as a benevolent institution where certain behaviors and expectations were attached to both slave and master.
What is paternalism?
500
Literary and intellectual movement that emphasized individualism and self-reliance, predicated upon a belief that each person possesses an “inner-light” that can point the way to truth and direct contact with God.
What is/was transcendentalism?
500
Transcendentalist commune founded by a group of intellectuals, who emphasized living plainly while pursuing the life of the mind.
What was Brook Farm?
500
This reformer attempted the improvement of the human race through eugenics at their utopian society.
Who is/was John Humphrey Noyes?
500
The Poet Laureate of Democracy, whose emotional and explicit writings expressed a deep love of the masses and enthusiasm for an expanding America, was _____.
What is/was Walt Whitman?
500
The great increase of the slave population in the first half of the nineteenth century was largely due to