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 |