Lesson 1 Word
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Where people traveled great distances to hear preachers speak, pray, sing, weep, and shout, known as the wave of religious interest.
What is colonization?
To take over and have a very big control of a land/territory.
What is a Patriarchy?
Social organization marked by the supremacy if the father of the clan or family.
What is Acculration?
The changes in custom and belief.
What is a utopia?
Community based in a vision of the perfect society.
Who is a Conductor?
Whites who guided African Americans towards all their runaways.
Who is an Abolitionist?
Person who sought the end of slavery in the U.S. in the early 1800's.
A slow approach towards the end of something.
What is Transcendentalism?
A literary movement that consists of the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual conscience.
What is assimilation?
The process by which individuals or groups absorbed into something else.