APUSH Ch.14

Deism

The Enlightenment-influenced belief that the Christian god created the universe and then left it to run according to natural laws.

Second Great Awakening

the belief that to get to heaven there has to be salvation through good works

there has to be actions taken

Burned-Over-District

religious revivals to western New York.

The Mormons faced much persecution from the people and were eventually forced to move west.

Mormons

People belonging to the church founded by Joseph Smith in the Burned Over Districts. Were persecuted and forced to move to west

Lyceum

an institution for popular education providing discussions, lectures, concerts

American Temperance Society

first national organization to protest the abuse of alcohol.

Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls

organized by prominent activists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

Modeled after the Declaration of Independence

Shakers

A religious sect known for their communal living, celibacy, and ecstatic worship

Hudson River School

a mid-19th century art movement that focused on nature

The Hudson River School artists portrayed humans and nature coexisting.

Minstrel Shows

stage performance performed by white people that dressed up in black faces and mocked African-Americans

Transendentalism

a philosophical and literary movement that emphasized individual intuition, the inherent goodness of people, and a deep connection to nature

The American Scholar

Promoted intellectual independence and urged American authors to move away from European ideas

Speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charles Grandison Finney

Known as the "father of modern revivalism,"

he was a pioneer

Joseph Smith

founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

he served as the first prophet-leader

Brigham Young

American religious leader who headed the Mormon Church after the murder of Joseph Smith, he lead mormons to Utah known as the Mormon Trail

Horace Mann

American educational reformer known as the 'Father of the American Public School System.

He advocated for universal public education and believed that education was essential for democracy and social equality.

Dorothea Dix

A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill

she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Lucretia Mott

A Quaker who started the womens rights convention at seneca falls

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls

Susan B. Anthony

prominent feminist, educator, and civil rights advocate

Amelia Bloomer

Reformer and women's rights activist,

wore short skirts with Turkish trousers or "bloomers", as a healthier and more comfortable alternative to the tight corsets and voluminous skirts popular with women of her day.

John J. Audubon

Member of Hudson River School that showed emotion of nature (specifically birds and animals) with a major work entitled THE BIRDS OF AMERICA

James Fenimore Cooper

a popular American writer

wrote numerous sea-stories and historical novels known as the the "Leatherstocking Tales"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American transcendentalist

was against slavery

stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom.

wrote self reliance and the american scholar

Henry David Thoreau

American poet, philosopher, abolitionist,

helped lead transcendentalist.

known for his poem Walden

Walt Whitman

American poet and transcendentalist

who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and professor of modern languages at Harvard

Known for Paul Reveres Ride and the song of Hiawatha

Louisa May Alcott

New England-born author of popular novels for adolescents, most notably Little Women

Emily Dickinson

Massachusetts-born poet

She was a recluse

All her work was published after she died

Edgar Allan Poe

American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic

Known for the raven and tell tale heart

Nathaniel Hawthorne

originally a transcendentalist; later rejected them and became a leading anti-transcendentalist.

wrote the scarlet letter

Herman Melville

One of the greatest writers of his era, his most important novel was Moby Dick