Chapter
15 Key Terms and People to Know
KEY TERMS
The age of Reason: work by Thomas Paine in 1794 in which he y declared that all churches were
set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Deism: people that rely on science rather than the bible
Unitarians: believed that god only existed in one person
Second Great Awakening: It was a movement when people started to say that these growing of
new religions was bad leaving a lot of lost and controverted souls and encouraged evangelicalism.
Burned Over District: nickname for western new york because many preachers saud "hellfire and
damnation"
Mormons: book launched after Joseph Smith saw the angel
Lyceum: speakers that would perform in platforms education such as science, literature, moral
and philosophy by 1835.
American Temperance Society: Gave drinkers to sign the temperate pledge and organize
children's clubs Cold War Army and gave lectures to drunk yards.
Maine Law of 1851: That prohibited the manufacturing and selling of intoxicating liquor.
Womans Rights Convention at Seneca Falls: In New York in 1848 that stated the Declaration of
Sentiments which stated all men and women are created equal.
New Harmony: In Indiana where Robert Owen found the communal society.
Brook Farm: In Massachusetts which started with 200 acres of given soil which committed
intellectuals believed in transcendentalism.
Oneida Community: Found in NY in 1848 were it practiced and believed in free love complex
marriage, birth control, and the belief of selecting of a parent to produce a better offspring.
Shakers: Founded in England in 1747 they prohibited relationships and marriage and their
monastic culture was too different they were gone in 1940s and came to the US in 1774.
Hudson River School: American school that excelled in human landscapes and romantic
mirrorings.
Minstrel shows: white actors with black faces
Transcendentalism: new style of writing in the 1830s
The American Scholar: famous lecture delivered in harvard by Ralph
PEOPLE TO KNOW
Peter Cartwright: influential Methodist preacher that converted many people
Charles Grandison Finney: evangelist preacher that caused a lost of change in the church
(women's roles)
Joseph Smith: rugged visionary that said he had seen an angel's golden plates
Brighman Young: took over the mormons after joseph died, lead the mormons away from
persecution
Horacce Man: advocated for a better school system
Dorothea Dix: New England teacher/author that described cells as foul in hopes for prison reform
Neal S. Dow: big advocate for alcohol prevention, mayor of Portland
Lucrecia Mott: Quaker that advocated for women's rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: left "obey" out of her wedding ceremony
Susan B Anthony: militant lecturer that exposed herself to rotten garbage and vulgar epithets
Lucy Stone: kept her maiden name after marriage
Amelia Bloomer: inventor of the "bloomer"
Robert Owen: founder of new harmony
Joseph J Audobon: painted wildflow in bird's natural habitats
Stephen C Foster: white Pennsylvanian that made the most famous black songs
James Fenimore cooper: first american novelist
Ralph Waldo Emerson: transcendalist that was a popular public speaker
Henry David Thoreau: emerson's close associate, refused to pay taxes due to slavery
Walt Whitman: controversial poet (1819-1892)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: one of the most popular poets in america that taught modern
languajes in harvard
Louisa May Alcott: author of little women
Emily Dickinson: Wrote and explored universal themes about nature, love, death, and immortality
but refused to publish any of her papers but when she died many were on print.
Nathaniel Hawthrone: A poet which writes about Puritanism and mysterious deaths.
Herman Melville: Wrote about his voyages at sea and whaling and his most famous one was Moby
Dick.
Francis Parkman: An American historian that emerged with many others.
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