Reformers & Religious Leaders
He was a former escaped slave who started the abolitionist publication: the North Star and became the most prominent Black abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
They were an end-of-times religious movement which emphasized spirituality, wild and loose dancing, and celibacy.
Who are the Shakers?
This is when geographic cultural tensions between two or more regions arise.
What is Sectionalism?
These were immigrants who flooded to new job opportunities in the U.S. with the Potato Famine helping to push them from their homelands.
Who are the Irish?
This term was used to describe the lucrative cotton industry in the antebellum South.
What is King Cotton?
He was the leader of the Mormons, following Joseph Smith, who led the movement to the Salt Lake Valley, in the Utah Territory, in 1844.
Who is Brigham Young?
They were a new religious Christian denomination founded in western New York state by Joseph Smith in 1830.
Who are the Mormons?
This was a Protestant religious revival in the U.S. from the 1790s to the 1840s. It was a clear break from the Enlightenment emphasis on rationality and logic.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These were immigrants who came for new land and job opportunities after they were pushed from their homelands by revolutionary and religious conflicts in Central Europe.
Who are the Germans?
The most dominant economic force in the North in the middle 1800s.
He was a Boston abolitionist who wrote against the immoral practice of slavery in his newspaper - The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
These were two of the more popular new mainstream Christian spiritually-driven denominations during the Second Great Awakening.
Who are the Methodists and Baptists?
It was a specific type of painting style or 'school' of art in the early 1800s centered around passion, emotion, and nature.
What is the Hudson River School?
This was the most common religion of Irish and German immigrants which caused strife and nativist reactions with the American Protestant majority.
What is Catholicism?
This agreement prohibited the expansion of slavery to any states north of the 36’ 30’ line. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state in 1820.
What is the Compromise of 1820? Or, Missouri Compromise.
She was the founder of the Shakers.
Who is Mother Ann Lee?
They were predominantly a New England movement rejecting a literal interpretation of the Bible. In addition, they also denied the spirituality and the divinity of Jesus.
Who are the Unitarians?
These were women of the Second Great Awakening who focused largely on political participation - especially the right to vote (suffrage).
What are First Wave Feminists?
These were immigrants who came to the U.S. before the mid-1800s and had been primarily Protestants from Western and Northern Europe.
What are 'Old Immigrants'?
This was a document that laid out the Enlightenment/Declaration of Independence inspired views of the women’s rights movement to gain the right to vote.
What is Declaration of Sentiments?
They were the two most prominent early First Wave Feminists leaders.
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
A collection of religious movements that believed Jesus would return for the second time in an apocalyptic transformation. This change could be the coming of the Kingdom of God, or just the complete harmony amongst all peoples.
Who are Millenarians?
It was an American philosophical movement that believed that people are innately good and should seek their intuition and inner truth for guidance.
What is Transcendentalism?
This event was the leading cause of Chinese immigration to the Pacific coast from the 1830s to 1860s.
What is the Taiping Rebellion?
This was an American philosophical movement that believed that people are innately good and should seek their intuition and inner truth for guidance.
What is Transcendentalism?