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What did woman and girls do in the pre-industry?
Spun yarn, weaved cloth, made candles, soaps, butter.
What were factory girls?
Young woman who worked in factories in place of their pre-industry jobs. They worked 6 days a week for 12 hours per day and were forbidden to form unions. As a result, Catharine Beecher urged women to enter the teaching profession.
What was Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason? (Connect this to Deism)
A book promoting Deism (belief in Science than a god) saying that all churches were meant to enslave mankind
What was the transportation revolution and what did it cause in the south, north, and west? (In Terms of Religion)
The transportation revolution was created because people in the east wanted to move west while taking their religious beliefs with them.
What was the Second Great Awakening and how was it better than the first? (Possible quiz question)
A wave of religious fervor swept over the country during the early 1800s. Women became more involved in religion and was spread super quickly because of the transportation revolution. Also prompted higher education standards
Who was Peter Cartwright?
A revivalist, traveling preacher who converted thousands to Christianity.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
One of the greatest revivalist preachers in New York that encouraged woman to partake in religion
The Second Great Awakening _______ (widened or lowered) the gap between the societal classes and regions. WHY??????
widened; Slavery was a main cause because it split churches apart.
How were the Mormons created and where did they reside?
Created by Joseph Smith who formed the Church of Mormons when he deciphered the Book of Mormon from some golden plates. Originally in Illinois, people hated the Mormons and killed Smith. This was when the religion fled to Utah.
Summarize the education system during the Second Great Awakening (was it good, bad)?
Tax-supported public education was implemented primarily in the North because Americans were influenced by Calvinism and the fact that these were the people of the future. PRIMARILY MEANT FOR MEN (women were meant to be at home). There were not very many schools in the U.S. because of their high costs to communities. The schools were not very good which led Horace Mann to campaign for a better school system.
What was lyceyum?
Lecture associations that travelled around the United States to carry religious learning to the masses (churches).
What was the American Temperance Society?
Many people developed drinking problems due to social norms. This prompted this society to form where its members persuaded people to stop drinking because it decreased worker efficiency.
What was the Maine Law of 1851?
When Maine banned the manufacture and sale of liquor because it decreased worker efficiency and destroyed family cultures.
What was the role of woman in the 1800s and what did it lead to?
It was to stay at home and obey to her husband. Because of these things, women actually started to avoid marriage.
What was the Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls?
Feminists met at Seneca Falls because of gender differences (women were viewed as artistic and the keepers of society's conscience, while men were viewed as strong but crude) and to rewrite the Declaration of Independence to include women. MORE RIGHTS
Rather than focusing on pure science, people tended to invent ___
gadgets
How was medicine during the 1800s?
It was very poor and medicine proved to be mostly ineffective due to lack of technologies.
What is Greek Revival and Federal style?
It emphasized art that was reintroduced to America. The Federal style was a type of art while most art was derived from Greece.
What was romanticanism?
An advancement in literature in America from post war of 1812.
What was the transcendentalist movement?
A group of people who believed that knowledge transcends through senses and can't be found just by observation.
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Transcendentalist who urged American writers to write about American interests.
Possible Quiz Questions that YOU need to prep for…
Anything involving Literature
Key characteristic of the Second Great Awakening
Immigration in the West (Transportation Revolution)
Education
Industrial Revolution (Mention Patent Office)
Who was Catharine Beecher?
American educator who advocated for woman rights to allow woman to teach
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