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Chapter 10 - 11 quiz
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cult of True Womanhood | Idol of middle class woman hood in early 19th century, said that women were naturally pious |
| Second Great Awakening | Religious revival that said salvation is to everyone and to stress the love of god and his mercy |
| Charles Grandison Finney | Most prominent leader in the second great awakening |
| Shakers | a religious commune from England that occured in America that Believed in no sex, didn't reproduce |
| Oneida | Lead by John Humphrey Boyes, only married within their community and developed manufacturing skills |
| Owenites | Robert Owen followers |
| Fourierists | Believed in a perfect society (Utopia) a social reform planned by Charles Fourier |
| Auburn System | Strict Jail system, which allowed little social contract among prisoners, mostly required silence, punished for slightest infraction of the rules |
| Dorothea Dix | Created the 1st generation of American Mental Asylums |
| Temperance Movement | advocated moderation in the use of alcohol, Washington and WCTU were the main organizations involved |
| Abolitionism | - World wide movement to abolish Slavery - Didnt expect the country to go to war |
| William Loyd Garrison | - Very radical abolitionists - Thought Slavery should end immediately |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Women's rights movement, talked about role of women in society |
| Declaration of Sentiments | - Signed at Seneca falls convention by MEN and women - Demanded equality w/men |
| Transcendentalism | - A reaction against Romanticism - regarded as nature as an essence of divinity - Thought humans were good and optimistic - Valued people being individual and aspiring |
| Herman Melville | Wrote Moby Dick |
| Nathaniel Hawthrne | Wrote Scarlet Letter |
| Edgar Allen Poe | Wrote scary stores and poems, very depressed and gothic writer |
| Walt Whitman | Wrote Leaves of Grass |
| Lyceums | Sponsored public lectures of ten featuring writers that were popular in the 19th century, favored by women. |
| Manifeset Destiny | Was the fuel for Oregon Fever because of the rich farmlands and open space |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Was signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Us and Mexico ended the Mexican war |
| Gold Rush | Term for the gold mining boom in the U.S. western terrtories in the late 1840's and 1850's |
| William Proviso | Amendment that banned slavery from any territory from the republic of Mexico |
| Popular Sovereignty | - Squatter Sovereignty - Lewis Cass - Tried to create new territories disregarding non and pro slave opinions |
| Compromise of 1850 | Act that admitted California as a free state and passed a stricter Fugitive slave act |
| Free Soil Party | opposed slavery in new territories |
| Fugitive Slave Act | a law that made people return runaway slaves |
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