Religious Revival
During the Second Great Awakening Charles Grandison Finney was
one of the most famous and most controversial travelling preachers
When the 19th century america grew larger, richer, and more diverse, it was also trying to accomplish a culture that was
distant and not following of any in Europe
Although women had many moral obligations and duties in the home, church and community, they had few
political and legal rights
The year ____ also marked the beginning of the superintendence of Dr. John Galt at Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first publicly supported psychiatric hospital in America.
1841
Before ____, there was no such thing as an art museum open to the public
1830
it was unique and was a welcome message coming from the mouths of
Finney and other american
local communities create different clubs so they could talk about
common interests and ideas.
When Abigail Adams reminded her husband John during the Constitutional Convention to
Remember the Ladies!
After the War of ____, reformers from Boston and New York began a crusade to remove children from jails into juvenile detention centers.
1812
Artists began to create work for the enjoyment of the Middle Class. Soon, it became as common to see a painting over the _________ of a home as to find a Bible on the kitchen table.
fireplace
who started to spread the word of the Second Great awakening from New england all the way to the west near
1795 to around 1835.
People speculated if any society were completely reorganized, it could be
regenerated and be perfected
Women were pushed to the sidelines as dependents of men, without the power to bring
suit, make contracts, own property, or vote.
After being locked down in solitary, many of the eighty men committed
suicide or had mental breakdowns.
In ____, the American Art Union was created to raise money for artists' salaries
1839
This was a message of opportunity and hope. Religion was
not only revived but it was being transformed
Utopia, originally a Greek word for an imaginary place where everyone and everything is perfect, was sought in America through the creation of model communities within the
greater society.
Activists began to question women's subservience to men and called for rallying around the
abolitionist movement
After several bad starts, America finally enjoyed about a ______ of real reform
decade
____ ______ had no formal training as an artist. He could not draw a likeness, or any real figure for that matter. But he understood something his peers did not.
Cole Thomas
The assurance that life on earth has its own rewards was not just a way station to the road to
heaven or hell
Most of the original utopias were created for religious purposes. One of the earliest was devised by George Rapp, a zealot, considering only God as their ruler, who took 600 followers to western Pennsylvania in
1804
Around 1840 the abolitionist movement was split over the acceptance of female speakers and officers. Ultimately ignored as a delegate to a World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, Elizabeth Cady Stanton returned to America in
1848
Idealism, plus hope in the perfectibility of institutions, spurred a new generation of leaders including Francis Lieber, Samuel Gridley Howe and the peerless Dix. Their goals were prison
libraries
While artists had been painting Americans for over a century, no one had painted _______ before.
America