APUSH Chapter 14 Vocab Quiz

The Age of Reason

An intellectual movement of the 1700s that emphasized reason, science, and logic rather than traditional religious beliefs.

Deism

A belief that God created the universe but does not regularly interfere with human affairs; emphasized reason and natural laws.

Second Great Awakening

A religious revival movement in the early 1800s that encouraged personal faith, emotional religious experiences, and social reform.

Burned-Over District

A region of western New York known for intense religious revivals during the Second Great Awakening.

Mormons

Followers of Joseph Smith's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who faced persecution and eventually migrated west to Utah.

Lyceum

A local organization that provided lectures, debates, and educational programs for adults.

American Temperance Society

An organization founded in 1826 that promoted abstinence from alcohol and helped launch the temperance movement.

Maine Law of 1851

A law that banned the manufacture and sale of alcohol in Maine and inspired similar laws in other states.

Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls

The 1848 convention in New York that launched the organized women's rights movement in the United States.

New Harmony

A utopian community in Indiana founded by Robert Owen that attempted to create a cooperative society.

Brook Farm

A transcendentalist utopian community in Massachusetts that emphasized education, intellectual activity, and shared work.

Oneida Community

A utopian religious community in New York that practiced communal living and shared property.

Shakers

A religious group known for communal living, simple lifestyles, celibacy, and skilled craftsmanship.

Romanticism

A cultural movement that emphasized emotion, imagination, nature, and individualism over reason and logic.

Transcendentalism

A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized individual intuition, self-reliance, nature, and spiritual truth.

The American Scholar

A speech by Ralph Waldo Emerson encouraging Americans to develop their own intellectual and cultural identity instead of copying Europe.

Peter Cartwright

A Methodist preacher and circuit rider who became a major religious figure during the Second Great Awakening.

Charles Grandison Finney

A famous revivalist preacher who promoted emotional religious conversions and social reform during the Second Great Awakening.

Joseph Smith

The founder of Mormonism who claimed to receive revelations from God and published the Book of Mormon.

Brigham Young

A leader of the Mormon Church who led Mormon settlers west to Utah after Joseph Smith's death.

Horace Mann

A Massachusetts education reformer who promoted free public schools, teacher training, and standardized education.

Dorothea Dix

A reformer who advocated for better treatment of people with mental illnesses and helped improve mental hospitals.

Neal S. Dow

A temperance reformer and politician who helped create the Maine Law of 1851 banning alcohol sales.

Lucretia Mott

A Quaker reformer and women's rights activist who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A leading women's rights activist who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.

Susan B. Anthony

A major women's rights activist who fought for women's suffrage and equal rights.

Lucy Stone

A women's rights activist who promoted women's suffrage and kept her birth name after marriage.

Amelia Bloomer

A women's rights activist and publisher who promoted women's reform and became associated with the loose clothing called bloomers.

Robert Owen

A British reformer who founded New Harmony, a utopian community in Indiana.

John J. Audubon

A naturalist and artist famous for his detailed paintings and studies of North American birds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A transcendentalist writer and philosopher who promoted self-reliance, individualism, and a close connection with nature.

Henry David Thoreau

A transcendentalist writer best known for Walden and his ideas about simple living, nature, and civil disobedience.

Walt Whitman

An American poet known for Leaves of Grass, which celebrated individualism, democracy, and the American experience.

Louisa May Alcott

An American author best known for Little Women, which focused on family, women's roles, and individual character.

Emily Dickinson

An American poet known for short, unconventional poems exploring death, nature, religion, and individual experience.

Edgar Allan Poe

An American writer and poet known for Gothic stories, mystery, horror, and poems such as The Raven.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An American author known for novels and stories exploring morality, guilt, sin, and Puritan society, including The Scarlet Letter.

Herman Melville

An American author best known for Moby-Dick, a novel exploring obsession, nature, and humanity.

Francis Parkman

An American historian best known for writing about the history of French and British conflicts in North America.