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History
Chapter 13 Section 1
Question | Answer |
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What was the Second Great Awakening? | a period of widespread envagalism |
To whom did the Second Great Awakening appeal mostly? | young women |
What was transcendentalism? | the idea that people could trancend the material things in life |
Name 3 influential figures who found inspiration in transcendentalism. | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau |
Which person was responsible for the essay, "Self-Reliance" discussing concerns about society? | Emerson |
Which author's writings eared the person a reputation as a champion of women's rights? | Fuller |
Which writer lived alone in the woods for 2 years learning about self reliance from isolation? | Thoreau |
What is utopian community? | a group people working to establish a perfect society on earth |
Who started a community of Shakers, and how did they get their name? | Ann LeeBecause of their tendency to shake their bodys during worship |
How did the Shakers live? | in an extremely plain life stylethey banned private ownership of property |
Explain the idea behind the romantic movement that began in Europe. | it drew upon the idea that each individual brings a unique perspective to the world that is best expressed by emotion rather than reason |
Who was the leading romantic painter? | Thomas Cole |
What was one of the best known examples of romantic literature, and who was the author? | The Scarlet LetterNathanial Hawthorne |
What is Herman Melville's novel that is thought to be one of the finest American novels ever written? | Moby-Dick |
Name several poets who wrote during the romantic period. | Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWalt WhitmanEmily DickonsonJohn Greenlea WhittierEdger Alan Pope |
Which of these poets was the most popular during the mid-1800s? | Longfellow |