History ch. 5 part 1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Second Great Awakening | 1800-1840; religious enthusiasm, evangelical movement; salvation open to all-not just rich or privileged; started in new england, timothy dwight, charles finney, frontier revivals, camp meetings; baptists and methodists- african americans drawn to both |
| Charles Finney | "burned-over district" in New York, swept through; public faith demonstrations; free will and hard work; need reforms, denounced slavery, alcohol and war |
| Baptists | equalitarian, viewed Bible as infallible, democratic structure- no hierarchy; african americans liked this |
| Joseph Smith | founded mormonism; angel told him to find golden tablets (in unknown language), revealed that native americans are punished with their dark skin; called book of mormon (1830); shot in navoo illinois; |
| Transcendentalism | emphasizes things that go beyond reason- nature, beauty, God in nature; find your inner-self, potential of man |
| Brook Farm | founded in 1841, union between intellectual and manual labor; had the best schools; in debt, only lasted during the 1840; transcendentalists lived there |
| Dorothea Dix | reformer; exposed conditions of prisons, almshouses, insane asylums & lobbied for better conditions |
| Horace Mann | on first school board of public schools, made compulsory school laws, more in north than south, mainly elementary schools |
| Lucretia Mott | excluded from an anti-slavery convention because she was a woman as well, started in women's rights |
| Seneca Falls Convention | campaign for women's rights, organized by stanton and mott in New York 1848; demanded the right to vote and freedom from their husbands taking their money; rejected cult of domesticity; |
| American Anti-Slavery Society | radical, immediate abolition of slaves, not like american colonization society |
| Sojourner Truth | slave in new york-> slavery abolished, argued against slavery and for women's rights |
| Republic of Texas | part of mexico, least settled part, declared republic, seeking americans to move out there and settle it |
| Davy Crockett | against indian removal, went to texas, fought to death at the alamo |
| John Tyler | president, wanted texas but never got anywhere with it |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | ended mexican war, mexico lost california & new mexico (mexican cession) and border moved to the rio grande; us paid $15 million; slavery can be extended |
| Compromise of 1850 | henry clay: 1. california= free 2. mexican cession= 2 territories, utah & new mexico- popular sovereignty 3. dc= slavery allowed, slave trade stops 4.fugitive salve act |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote uncle tom's cabin- book caused much controversy |
| Santa Anna | declared himself dictator of texas to enforce the rules made in 1829- no slaves/ everyone becomes catholic |
| Stephen Austin | forefather of the Americans that move to texas, most from south bringing their slaves because of fear that slavery will be abolished |
| Timothy Dwight | president of Yale, didn't like their liberal christianity views; started campus revivals and affected students, free agency- free will; against unitarians |
| free will | not predestination; free agency- your own religion choice |
| circuit-riders | 2nd great awakening; rode from town to town preaching |
| camp meeting | communities on the frontier gathered and everyone came out; women felt liberated; was a revival |
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