APUSH Chapter 15 Vocabulary – Flashcards
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Separate Spheres
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Middle-class ideal where home life was strictly separated from the workplace and womens roles were separate from mens, with women running the household and men earning money outside it.
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Deism
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The form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation.
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Utopia
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An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
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Temperance
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Abstinence from alcohol, or essentially self-control moderation
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Lucretia Mott
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Quaker activist in both the abolitionist and women's movements; with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was a principal organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S.
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Hudson River School
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Founded by Thomas Cole, first native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River.
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Transcendentalism
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Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.
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Henry David Thoreau
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United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) Transcendentialist and wrote on civil disobedience
