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HISTORY
Ch 7, Sec 1
Question | Answer |
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Vocab: Republican Virtues | Self-Reliance, Thrift/Frugality, hard work,harmony, & sacrificing individual needs for the good of the community. |
Why were Republican Virtues considered important? | Americans would need these to govern themselves in the New Republic |
Vocab: Mobile Society | One in which people continually move from place to place. |
Name two major effects of a mobile society. | 1) Opportunity to improve their lives 2) Away from families they had to develop FRIENDSHIPS with strangers, learn new skills for getting along |
Name one of the more important social skills that was a result of a mobile society? | The ability to judge strangers. Their role in society |
What factors drove population growth in the early 1800s? | A great increase in the number of Births |
Why did Courtship take on new importance in the mobile society of the 1800s? | With a mobile society, A woman would not know much about a mans stature or family background and that took time to learn prior to commitment. |
How did American try to advance the culture of the new nation? | With Independence from Great Britain, America could determine its own destiny |
In 1782 The Continental Congress chose a symbol of the United States what was it? | The Bald Eagle |
What does the Bald Eagle stand for? | Freedom and Independence and Raw Energy |
Who was Noah Webster? | A respected teacher and author who wrote "The American Spelling Book", wrote the first American Dictionary of the English Language. |
What did Noah Webster call upon the new nation to do in 1790? | Stride Boldly into the future |
Noah Webster & others wanted to establish the country's "nation character" and promoted such things as ...? | Education & The Arts (considered Virtuous behavior) |
Who hosted political meetings, wrote patriotic plays encouraging independence and wrote a book "History of the American Revolutio"? | Mercy Otis Warren |
Name the doctor,scientist, book publisher from Pennsylvania that signed the Declaration of Independence and believe mental illness to be a disease? | Benjamin Rush |
Name the 1/2 Black, 1/2 white astronomer that was self educated and published the first Almanac of the moon, sun, stars, planets. | Benjamin Banneker |
Name the skilled portrait artist, that founded the first major museum in the new nation? | Charles Willson Peale |
Name the slave from West Africa that gained fame for her collection of Poems titled "Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral"? | Phillis Wheatley |
Vocab: Second Great Awakening | Powerful religious movement of the 1800s |
Where did the Second Great Awakening start from? | The backcountry of Kentucky and Tennessee |
Was the Second Great Awakening an Evangelical movement? | Yes |
A Christian religious movement is considered Evangeleical when it stresses Three ideas, name them? | 1)The Bible is the final authority 2)Salvation only through belief in Jesus 3)True faith and actions "witnessing for Christ" |
Second Great Awakening was DEMOCRATIC and stressed the importance of what__ instead of ministers? | Congregation (anyone rich or poor could be saved) |
What was the main difference between the Great Awakening (colonial) and the Second Great Awakening: | The first one, people rejected traditional authorities. The Second Awakening promised Salvation to those that believed in Christ and the Bible |
Did both of the Great Awakenings make religion democratic? | Yes |
Was Mercy Otis Warren a good example of a "Republican Woman"/ Why or why not? | Yes, she made sacrifices & worked hard for the good of a common cause (The Revolution) |
What coes AME stand for? | African Methodist Episcopal |
What did the AME do? | Created a place for African Americans to Worship and gave them a voice. |
How did the Second Great Awakening lead to the growth of ne Christian Denominations? | BAPTIST grew because the had evangelical zeal. METHODISM appealed to the common people. UNITARIANISM offere hope and reason. MORMON grew due to simplicity of doctrine. |
One common feature of the Second Great Awakening was called the what? | Revival |
The Revival gathering did what? | After listening to a preacher people were "revived" or brought back to a religious life. |
Did the Revival movement bring women increased power? | Yes, but it was indirect |
Prior to the 2nd Great Awakening and the new denominations (Baptist,Methodist,Unitarians, Mormons) what were the two most important denominations? | The Presbyterians and Congregationalists |
Baptist got their name from what? | Beliefs about Baptism (no babies, only those old enough to understand beleifs)& by full immersion |
Methodist grew from the beliefs of a British Minister named? | John Wesley |
The Methodist religion had many followers due to four reasons? | 1)Personal relationship with GOD 2)Appealed to the Common people 3)Spread the message by way of traveling ministers 4)Held Frequent Revivals |
What was a Methodist traveling minister called? | Circuit Rider |
Is Unitariansm an evangelical faith? | No |
How did the Unitarians see Jesus? | As a human messenger of God, BUT not divine himself. |
How did the Unitarians see God? | As a loving father, not a stern judge |
Who was the Boston minister that organized the American Unitarian Association? | William Ellery Channing |
Why did the Unitarian Minister Channing believe that people were on earth? | So God could train us by aids and obstructions, by conflicts of reason and passion....for union with God. |
Who published the book of Mormon? | Joseph Smith |
The New YOek region experience lots of fiery religious movement in the region and it became know as what? | The Burned-Over District |
Joseph Smith wrote the Book of Mormon supposedly from what? | Buried Gold Plates that an angel let him to find. |
Joseph started a church based on the Book of Mormon called what? | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints later just called Mormons |
An evangelical Baptist minister named William Miller beleived in the Advent (second coming) and his followers were called? | Millennialists |
Name some of the churches from the Millennialist followers? | Seventh Day Adventist, Advent Christian Church |