Second Great Awakening APUSH – Flashcards
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Lyman Beecher
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Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader and a leader of the Second Great Awakening of the United States.
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William Miller
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A self-educated farmer from New York. Convinced from his studies that Christ will return in 1843, from his studies of the Scriptures.
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Charles Finney
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urged people to abandon sin and lead good lives in dramatic sermons at religious revivals
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Charles Finney
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urged people to abandon sin and lead good lives in dramatic sermons at religious revivals
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Joseph Smith
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founder of Mormonism, published Book if Mormon and Church of the Latter Day Saints
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Horace Mann
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Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he was a prominent proponent of public school reform, and set the standard for public schools throughout the nation.
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Noah Webster
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"Schoolmaster of the Republic." Wrote reading primers and texts for school use. He was most famous for his dictionary, first published in 1828, which standardized the English language in America.
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William McGuffey
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Author who sought to teach children reading and Christian morality at the same time
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Emma Willard
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in 1821 founded Troy Female Seminary in New York which was a model for girls schools everywhere
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Dorothea Dix
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Activist who helped improve conditions of mental patients
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temperance
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Abstinence from alcohol
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American Temperance Society
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1826, Protestant ministers and others concerned with the high rate of alcohol consumption and the effects of such excessive drinking, founded this society; wanted people to completely abstain from drinking alcohol
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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A member of the womens rights movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Womens Rights Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal."
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Susan B Anthony
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social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association
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Lucretia Mott
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A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first womens right convention in New York in 1848
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Seneca Falls Convention
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(1848) the first national womens rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
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American Antislavery Society
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Founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists. Garrison burned the Constitution as a proslavery document. Argued for "no Union with slaveholders" until they repented for their sins by freeing their slaves.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Frederick Douglass
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(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
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Sojourner Truth
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..., United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
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American Colonization Society
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A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country
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transcendentalism
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A philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s which emphasized living a simple life while celebrating the truth in nature, emotion, and imagination.
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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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American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.
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Walt Whitman
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American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry.
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Stephen C Foster
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father of American music; known for parlor and minstrel music
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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 Yorks Hudson River
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daguerreotypes
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an early photograph produced on a light-sensitive metal plate
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Magdalen Society
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created in 1828 by a band of Sunday school teachers (mostly women) - argued that brutal fathers and husbands who abandoned their young daughters or wives, by dandies who seduced them and turned them into prostitutes, and by the lustful men who bought their services
