AP US History: Period 4 & The Second Great Awakening

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering key terms, historical figures, reform movements, and social trends from Period 4 AP U.S. History and the Second Great Awakening.

Transcendentalism

According to Khan Academy, the philosophy of _______________________ arose in the 1830s in the eastern United States as a reaction to intellectualism. Its adherents (supporters) yearned for intense spiritual experiences and sought to advance beyond the purely material world of reason and rationality.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Two of the most famous and influential advocates and writers of the American Transcendentalist movement.

Feminism

According to Khan Academy, some influential advocates of Transcendentalism, such as Margaret Fuller, were also early pioneers of _____________________.

Second Great Awakening

One of the most important religious, social, and cultural revival movements of the early 19th century, needed to understand antebellum American culture and social reform.

Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher

According to Khan Academy, two of the most famous Second Great Awakening "circuit riders" were…

Market Revolution

According to Khan Academy, one explanation for the development of the Second Great Awakening was the simultaneous influence of…

The Second Great Awakening

The industrial (or market) revolution

Nativism

According to Khan Academy, the three main causes of the temperance movement were…

Teetotalism

What reform principle means “do not drink alcohol at all”.

Antebellum Women's Movement

What was the early 19th-century campaign for female legal, social, and political rights that gained significant traction directly through participation in abolition and the Second Great Awakening.

abolition and the Second Great Awakening

According to Khan Academy, the Women's Movement of the early 19th Century gained traction through what other two movements?

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention

According to Khan Academy, the _________________, published at the ________________, used very recognizable language to underline the inconsistencies between national commitments to human equality and the treatment of women.

James Henry Hammond

According to Khan Academy (and your own term list?), which of the following was NOT an abolitionist?

Nat Turner

According to Khan Academy (and your own term list?), which of the following personally led an unsuccessful slave revolt?

David Walker

What African American abolitionist whose 1829 pamphlet urged enslaved people to actively resist and revolt against their enslavers.

those who did not enslave any people

According to Khan Academy, which of the following was the largest group of whites who enslaved African Americans in the South (by 1850)?

American Colonization Society (ACS)

Term check: the objective was to send former slaves and free black men and women back to Africa…

New York

Where was the "Burned-Over District"

Mormons

Term check: which of the following was founded in the "Burned Over District" in the 1820s?

Cult of Domesticity

Urged middle class women to focus on raising children and taking care of the home?

Nativism

Associated with being anti-immigrant or anti-immigration?

technological advancement

According to Khan Academy, what did the Second Great Awakening NOT have a direct impact on…

Abolition

The rise of utopian communities

Support for public education

The birth of the women's movement

According to Khan Academy, what did the Second Great Awakening have a direct impact on…