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100
The year the Mormons, led by Brigham Young, journeyed to Utah.
What is 1846?
100
Leader of the Shakers.
What is Mother Ann Lee?
100
Crucial part of the Second Great Awakening, occured on the frontier and resulted in an increase in church membership.
What is "Camp Meetings"?
100
Painted wild birds in a natural habitat.
What is John J. Audubon?
100
Group that believed Christ would return on October 22, 1844.
What is Millerites (Adventists)?
200
The year Oberlin College accepted men and women.
What is 1837?
200
Creator of multiple Washington portraits and a student in England.
What is Gilbert Stuart?
200
A place in Western New York where preachers spoke of hellfire and damnation.
What is the "Burned-Over" District?
200
Member of the Knickerbocker Group and the first American to win international recognition as a literary figure.
What is Washington Irving?
200
Head of the Massachusetts Board of Education.
What is Horace Mann?
300
The publication date of "Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There" by T.S. Arthur.
What is 1854?
300
Transcendentalist and deliverer of "The American Scholar."
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
300
Movement that perceived God as an Oversoul and that was devoted to self-reliance and self-discipline.
What is Transcendentalism?
300
Designer of Monticello and University of Virginia.
What is Thomas Jefferson?
300
Arithmetic, reading and writing.
What is the 3 R's?
400
The year the Women's Rights Convention met at Seneca Falls.
What is 1848?
400
The "Father of American History."
What is George Bancroft?
400
Popular form of entertainment in which white actors painted thier faces black.
What is "Minstrel Shows"?
400
Art school that specialized in local landscapes and romantic style?
What is Hudson River School?
400
Believed in reason and science and objected original sin.
What is Deism?
500
The year New Harmony was established by Robert Owen.
What is 1825?
500
Methodist revivalist preacher who traveled the frontier and converted thousands.
What is Peter Cartwright?
500
Belief of Finney in which repentant sinners sat in view of the congregation.
What is the "anxious bench"?
500
Painter of Revolutionary War scenes. His art was influenced by his personal experiences in the war.
What is John Trumbull?
500
First women's college, established by Mary Lyon.
What is Mount Holyoke?