APUSH Warm Up – Second Great Awakening Questions – Flashcards
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What was the religious movement in which individualism and individual right to uphold society was promoted?
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The Second Great Awakening
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What is a revival?
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A religious gathering designed to reawaken faith through impassioned or emotional preaching
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What is Trancendentalism?
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A literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
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What is Trancendentalism?
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A literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
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Describe a Utopian community.
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An experimental society designed to be perfect. No arguments or disagreements.
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Who was the preacher who inspired emotional faith?
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Thomas Finney
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What is a movement to end slavery?
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Abolitionism
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What was the organized movement to end drinking?
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The Temperance movement
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Who were the Grimke sisters?
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Abolitionists and advocates of womens rights
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What was the Seneca Falls movement?
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A womens rights convention in New York
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Who were major players at the Seneca Falls movement?
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
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Who was Nat Turner?
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He organized a slave riot, attacking four plantations and killing about sixty whites. This only made the South more inclined to defend slavery, and slave owners killed as many as 2 hundred innocent blacks.
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Who was the women who wanted to change prisons and asylums?
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Dorothea Dix, and she achieved this by telling of the horrible treatment of the mentally ill. They were kept in cages and beaten with rods.
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What is civil disobedience?
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The refusal to obey laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to change governmental policy
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Who started "the Liberator"?
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William Lloyd Garrison
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In 1800, what was the first state with public education?
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Massachussetts
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In 1850, where were most of the schools located?
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In the Northeast
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Why were there very few public schools in the South?
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The rich didnt want to have to pay taxes for the poor to go to school.
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Why were abolitionists unpopular among business owners?
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They got most of their supplies from the South, and if slavery was abolished, the prices of their supplies would go up
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Which two reform movements did the Grimke sisters and Sojourner Truth most support?
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Womens rights and ending slavery
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What is the Underground Railroad?
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A network of Quaker houses that help slaves escape to the North
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Why were there more women reformers than men?
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Being a part of the revivals allowed women to heighten their sense of purpose and widen their social circle, thus enhancing her chance of marriage
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Who started the Mormon religious movement?
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Joseph Smith
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What values did the Mormon religion uphold, and what were the distinctive features of Mormon culture that Smith introduced?
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Mormon religion upheld the middle-class values of hard work and material success, and Smith introduced the ideas of baptism for the dead, eternal marriage, and polygamy which are now the outstanding features of the Mormon religion
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What states did Smith unsuccessfully try to form a Mormon city in because of mob abuse?
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Ohio, Missouri, Illinois
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Who was Smiths successor and where did he lead the Mormons to flee from governmental persecution?
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Brigham Young led them to Salt Lake City, Utah
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Who started the Shakers and what did they do?
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Ann Lee started the Shakers, who used dancing as a form of religion to release sexual tension. Shakers practiced celibacy, separating the sexes as far as practical
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Who started the Oneida community and what did they do?
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John Humphrey Noles, and they practiced free love and sharing property among men and women
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Why did the Temperance movement occur?
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During the time, people consumed large amounts of alcohol because they didnt rust the water, plus alcohol was easier and cheaper to get. They saw alcoholism as a character flaw and thought removing it would solve a lot of social problems.
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Who created a lot of the customs we use in school systems today?
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Horace Mann
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What were those customs that Horace Mann invented?
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Minimum-length school year, board of education, training of teachers, expanded curriculum
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What was the first co-ed college?
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Oberlin
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What was the first all-girls college?
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Mount Holyoke
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What were some of the more extreme views of William Lloyd Garrison?
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Racial equality, immediate end to slavery, slave owners shouldnt be compensated for freeing slaves
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Who was a major abolitionist (free black)?
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Frederick Douglass
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What were some views on slavery by the abolitionists?
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Ending slavery was a moral, slavery was against Christian teaching
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What were some issues resolved at the Seneca Falls movement?
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Educational and professional opportunities, control by women of their property, legal equality, and the repeal of laws giving custody of children to the father in divorce
