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Temperance Movement
Literature
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Improving Society
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Who were big supporters of the Temperance movement?
Women and children.
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Who was the man that created "The Liberator" newspaper in 1831?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
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Who was the most popular songwriter of the 1800s?
Who is Stephen Foster.
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What is a public school?
Free schools supported by taxes.
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What happened to the Utopian Community founded by Robert Owen?
The colony dissolved after 2 years.
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What was the Temperance Movement?
The Temperance Movement was an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and problems created by it.
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What did transcendentalists favor over logic?
What is emotion and initiative
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Who was the most popular songwriter of the 1800's?
Who is Steven Foster.
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The total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol is called...
Prohibition
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During the ____ ___ ________ the expansion of democracy encouraged reform.
Age of Jackson
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What was another name for the Temperance Movement?
The Anti-Saloon Movement.
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In what year time frame did essayists and poets emerge in?
What is the 1840's-1850's.
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What themes did American painters and musicians focus on that differs from European painters and musicians?
What is the landscapes around them and the daily lives of Americans.
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What is social reform?
Organized attempts to improve conditions of life.
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What did people come to believe during the Second Great Awakening?
They came to believe that, if they had the power to improve themselves, they could improve society as well.
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Why did people view that drinking alcohol was something that was "okay?"
First, whiskey was cheaper than milk or beer. It also was safer to drink than water, which was frequently contaminated.
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The people who helped carve out the early territory of American Literature.
Who are Washington Irving and James Fenimoe Cooper
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What were the two most popular types of American songs in the 1800's?
What is work songs and spirituals.
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What is predestination?
Predestination was the idea that god decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth.
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Who was Charles Finney?
Charles Finney was a preacher who held the first of many revivals.
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What organization was created due to the Temperance Movement?
The American Temperance Society.
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What are two of the most famous American Literature books of the 19th century?
What is "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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What group of artists painted scenes of the Hudson River valley?
What is the Hudson River School.
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Who was Dorothea Dix? What did she try to convince the state legislatures?
Dorothea Dix was a Massachusetts schoolteacher who took up the cause of prison reform. She tried to convince state legislatures to build new, more sanitary, and more humane prisons.
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Why did the Age of Jackson matter?
The Age of Jackson was a time of expanding democracy in the U.S. This democratic spirit combined with religious ideas, inspired people to improve American Society.