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APUSH: Chapter 11
APUSH: Chapter 11 (Religion and Reform (1800-1860)) Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Individualism | a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control. |
| American Renaissance | a mid-nineteenth century period marked with flourishing literature and philosophy, wrote a remarkable number of first-class novels, poems, and essays |
| Transcendentalism | an intellectual movement that emphasized the dignity of the individual and advocated a simple, mindful life |
| Utopias | Communities founded by reformers and transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society. |
| Socialism | a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. |
| perfectionism | Christian movement of the 1830s that believed people could achieve moral perfection in their earthly lives because the Second Coming of Christ had already occurred. |
| Mormonism | a term used to describe religious, ideological, and cultural aspects of the various denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is practiced around the world, but is concentrated in Utah. |
| minstrelsy | Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830, in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism. |
| abolitionism | Militant effort to do away with slavery; began in the N in the 1700's; becoming a major issue in the 1830's, it dominated politics by the 1840's; Congress became a battle ground between the pro and anti slavery forces |
| underground railroad | A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North or Canada |
| amalgamation | the process through which a majority group and a minority group combine to form a new group - the racial mixing and intermarriage |
| gag rule | 1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress |
| separate sphere | nineteenth-century view that men and women have different gender-defined characteristics and, consequently, that men should dominate the public sphere of politics and economics, while women should manage the private sphere of home and family. |
| domestic slavery | A term referring to the assertion by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other female abolitionists that traditional gender roles and legal restrictions created a form of slavery for married women. |
| married women's property act | (1848) law that permitted married women to own property, file lawsuits, and retain earnings; major victory for the early women's right movement |
| seneca falls convention | Took place in upperstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote. |
| ralph waldo emerson | American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement. |
| henry david thoreau | American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War. |
| margaret fuller | Social reformer, leader in women's movement, transcendentalist. Edited "The Dial" the publication of the transcendentalists. appealed to people who wanted "perfect freedom" "progress in philosophy/theology, hope that the future will not be as the past". |
| walt whitman | American poet, transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature, as demonstrated in his book, Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writing poetry. |
| herman melville | American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby-Dick (1851), considered among the greatest American novels |
| nat turner | Leader of a slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia. Revolt led to the deaths of 20 whites and 40 blacks and led to the "gag rule' outlawing any discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives |
| william lloyd garrison | 1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. |
| dorothea dix | reformer, pioneer helped treat the insane/mentally ill, 1820's - was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses, insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. succeeded responsibility for the care of the mentally ill. |
| elizabeth cady stanton | member of the women's right's movement. shocked feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" declared "all men and women are created equal." |
| susan b. anthony | social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation |
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