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History Crossword
Stack #16674
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| unitariaism | unifies God, change from congregational church, believes man is a generally good person put on earth to do good things |
| transcedentalism | more philisophical religion, man goes beyond need for organized religion, sees God in nature |
| Emerson | American philosopher, transcendentalist, rejected authority, praised individualism, writer and a lecturer, encouraged AMericans to make their own culture seperate from European |
| Thoreau | followed in Emerson's footsteps, wrote Walden, born and raised in Concord, didn't pay taxes since he didn't support mexican war, philosopher |
| Bronson Alcott | innovative new school ideas, but schools failed since he was ahead of his time |
| Utopian Community | radical community based on religious ideas |
| Brook Farms | a Utopian community in MA, based around Unitariasm |
| Shakers | religious community developed by Mother Anne Lee, off shoot of quakers, not Amish |
| Mormons | major religion established by Joseph Smith, a christian religion, originally called Church of Christ |
| Joseph Smith | established Chuch of Christ in upper state new york, turned to Mormons |
| Sylvester Graham | wanted to be a minister, preached wheat flower diets and vegetarinism, invented Graham cracker |
| Charles G Finney | studied law, preached presbetariaism, created new revival techniques, switched to congregational, lectured on revivals |
| Revivalism | a rebirth of the intense christian church, with intense outdoors lectures called camp meetings, strong religious thinking |
| Thomas Galladet | taught deaf people how to communicate and learned, helped people with handicaps |
| Horace Mann | helped establish free public education, calvinist --> presbetariaism, tolerance of diversity, pro-women's rights |
| Margaret Fuller | taught at schools, helped Emerson created the Dial, called for women's equality |
| Horace Greely | newspaper editor, seperated news from editorials |
| Louisa May Alcott | wrote Little Women, active in women's suffrage movement |
| Phineas T Barnum | started first circus, he and Bailey made the 3 ring circus |
| Dorothy Dicks | taught in prison, convinced state to change conditions for mentally ill making hospitals for them |
| William Lloyd Garrison | wrote "The Liberator" newspaper, passionate abolitionist |
| Courier and Ives | printing company in New York that made very idealistic newsworthy pictures for the public |
| Elizabeth Caty Stanton | driving force behind convention in 1848 for women to voice their ideas |
| Lucretia Mott | quaker teacher who served a big role in women's rights and abolition |
| Harriet Tubman | an escaped slave who helped many others through the underground railroad |
| Theodore Weld and the Grimkey Sisters | studied for ministry, strong opponent of slavery, also women's rights activists, even though the sisters were wealthy southern women |
| Steven Douglas | born a slave but escaped, became a huge abolitionist, self-exiled to Britain where he continued to speak out against slavery, improved conditions for black soldiers |
| Sojourner Truth | escaped slavery, worked in religious commune, walked across long island preached against slavery and pro-women's rights |
| Hudson River School of Painting | great American painters went there to paint realistic idealistic landscaped, lead by Thomas Cole goal was to ignore European ideas on art |
| Greek Revival Architecture | "national style" began with public buildings in PA b/c US liked their democratic ideas and supported them in their war |
| Samuel Griddly Howe | made school for the blind |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st women's medical college |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle tom's cabin about evils of slavery |
| American Colonization Society | wanted to send blacks back to Africa b/c he thought blacks an whites could never live together, started Liberia |
| Washington Irving | wrote sleepy hollow, stories of Hudson Valley |
| James Fedemore Cooper | wrote the Last of the Mohegans (Mattie Bumpo), tales of upstate NY |
| Hermin Melville | Moby Dick |
| Edgar Allen Poe | created the American mystery novel |
| Longfellow | classic American writer, lived in Cambridge, "Evangeline" |
| Hawthorne | ministers black viel, the scarlett letter |
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