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Ch. 10 Vocab
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Word coined by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835 to describe Americans as people no longer bound by social attachments to classes, castes, associations, and families | individualism |
| A series of evangelical Protestant revivals extending from the 1790s to the 1830s that prompted thousands of conversions and widespread optimism about Americans’ capacity for progress and reform. | Second Great Awakening |
| A web of reform organizations, heavily Whig in their political orientation, built by evangelical Protestant men and women influenced by the Second Great Awakening. | Benevolent Empire |
| The nation’s first state law for the prohibition of liquor manufacture and sales, passed in 1851. | Maine Law |
| A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired in part by Emerson’s ideas on the liberation of the individual | American Renaissance |
| A European philosophy that rejected the ordered rationality of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, embracing human passion, spiritual quest, and self-knowledge. Strongly influenced American transcendentalism. | romanticism |
| A nineteenth-century American intellectual movement that posited the importance of an ideal world of mystical knowledge and harmony beyond the immediate grasp of the senses. | NEXT |
| Influenced by romanticism, transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau called for the critical examination of society and emphasized individuality, self-reliance, and nonconformity. | transcendentalism |
| Communities founded by reformers and transcendentalists to help realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from the competition of modern industrial society. | utopias |
| Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. After Smith’s death at the hands of an angry mob, in 1846 Brigham Young led many followers of Mormonism to lands in present-day Utah | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons |
| The practice of men taking multiple wives, which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith argued was biblically sanctioned and divinely ordained as a family system. | plural marriage |
| Popular theatrical entertainment begun around 1830 in which white actors in blackface presented comic routines that combined racist caricature and social criticism. | minstrel shows |
| Sensational and popular urban newspapers that built large circulations by reporting crime and scandals. | penny papers |
| Organizations in northern free black communities that sought to help community members and work against racial discrimination, inequality, and political slavery. | Free African Societies |
| Founded in 1816 by African Americans who were discriminated against by white Protestants. The church spread across the Northeast and Midwest and even founded a few congregations in the slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Louisiana, and South Carolina. | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| The radical 1829 pamphlet by free African American David Walker in which he protested slavery and racial oppression, called for solidarity among people of African descent, and warned that slaves would revolt if the cause of freedom was not served. | David Walker’s Appeal |
| The social reform movement to end slavery immediately and without compensation that began in the United States in the 1830s | abolitionism |
| The first interracial social justice movement in the United States, which advocated the immediate, unconditional end of slavery on the basis of human rights, without compensation to slave masters | American Anti-Slavery Society (AA-SS) |
| An informal network of whites and free blacks in the South that assisted fugitive slaves to reach freedom in the North. | Underground Railroad |
| A procedure in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844 by which antislavery petitions were automatically tabled when they were received so that they could not become the subject of debate | gag rule |
| An antislavery political party that ran its first presidential candidate in 1844, controversially challenging both the Democrats and Whigs. | Liberty Party |
| A middle-class ideal of “separate spheres” that celebrated women’s special mission as homemakers, wives, and mothers who exercised a Christian influence on their families and communities; | NEXT |
| it excluded women from professional careers, politics, and civic life | domesticity |
| An organization led by middle- class Christian women who viewed prostitutes as victims of male lust and sought to expose their male customers while “rescuing” sex workers and encouraging them to pursue respectable trades. | Female Moral Reform Society |
| Laws enacted between 1839 and 1860 in New York and other states that permitted married women to own, inherit, and bequeath property. | married women’s property laws |
| The first women’s rights convention in the United States. Held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, it resulted in a manifesto extending to women the egalitarian republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence. | Seneca Falls Convention |
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