Religious Revival and Mormons

Individualism

A belief that freedom and goals of a person are more important than the control of the government.

Second Great Awakening

Religious revival that emphasized free will, emotional preaching, and social reform.

Benevolent Empire

A network of Protestant charitable and missionary organizations.

Maine Law

The nations first state law for the ban of liquor manufacture and sale.

American Renaissance

A period when American literature and culture grew into its own distinctive, world class identity.

Romanticism

An artistic and intellectual movement that put intense emotion and imagination above cold reason and science.

Transcendentalism

Movement that taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity.

Utopias

An experimental community designed to create a perfect social, political, and economic society.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormons

Religious group that believes in the teachings of Jesus Christ as restored by Joseph Smith, emphasizing modern-day revelations and scriptures.

Plural marriage

A practice where one person is married to multiple spouses at the same time.

Minstrel shows

Highly popular form of theatrical entertainment where white performers typically darkened their faces to mimic and caricature African American culture.