Know: Alexis de Tocqueville, The Age of Reason, Deism, Unitarians, Second
Great Awakening, Camp Meetings, Charles Grandison Finney
1. In what ways did religion in the United States become more
liberal and more conservative in the early decades of the 19th century?
Denominational Diversity
Know: Burned-Over-District,
Millerites (Adventists)
2. What effect did the Second Great Awakening have on organized
religion?
A Desert Zion in Utah
Know: Joseph Smith, Book of
Mormon, Brigham Young
3. What characteristics of the Mormons caused them to be
persecuted by their neighbors?
Free Schools for a Free People
Know: Three R's, Horace Mann,
Noah Webster, McGuffey's Readers
4. What advances were made in the field of education from 1820
to 1850?
Higher Goals for Higher Learning
Know: University of Virginia,
Oberlin College, Mary Lyon, Lyceum, Magazines
5. In what ways did higher education become more modern in the
antebellum years?
An Age of Reform
Know: Sylvester Graham,
Penitentiaries, Dorthea Dix
6. How and why did Dorthea Dix participate in the reform
movements?
Demon Rum--The "Old Deluder"
Know: American Temperance
Society, Neil S. Dow, Maine Law of 1851
7. Assess the
successfulness of the temperance reformers.
Women in Revolt
Know:
Spinsters, Alexis de Tocqueville, Cult
of Domesticity, Catherine Beecher, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimke,
Amelia Bloomer, Seneca Falls, Declaration of Sentiments
8. Describe the status of women in the first half of the 19th
century.
Wilderness Utopias
Know: Utopias, New Harmony,
Brook Farm, Oneida Community, Complex Marriage, Shakers
9. In what ways were utopian communities different from
mainstream America?
The Dawn of Scientific Achievement
Know: Benjamin Silliman, John
J. Audubon
10. Was the United States a leader in the world in scientific
pursuits? Explain.
Makers of America: The Oneida Community
Know: John Humphrey Noyes,
Bible Communism, Mutual Criticism
11. The word "utopia" is a word that is "derived
from Greek that slyly combines the meanings of `a good place' and `no such
place'." Does the Oneida Community fit
this definition? Explain.
Artistic Achievements
Know: Thomas Jefferson, Gilbert Stuart, Charles Wilson Peale, John Trumball,
Hudson River School, Daguerreotype, Stephen C. Foster
12. "The antebellum period was a time in which American art
began to come of age." Assess.
The Blossoming of a National Literature
Know: Knickerbocker Group,
Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant
13. In the early 1800's American writers emerged, who were
recognized world-wide for their ability.
What made them uniquely American?
Trumpeters of Transcendentalism
Know: Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walden:
Or Life in the Woods, On the Duty of
Civil Disobedience, Walt Whitman
14. Which of the transcendentalists mentioned here best
illustrated the theory in his life and writings? Explain.
Glowing Literary Lights
Know: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell
Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson
15. Name six important American writers and explain the
significance of each.
Literary Individualists and Dissenters
Know: Edgar Allan Poe,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville
16. Why do you think Poe and Melville were not appreciated as
much in America at the time as they were in other times and places?
Portrayers of the Past
Know: George Bancroft, William
H. Prescott, Francis Parkman
17. How did the geographic background of early historians affect
the history they wrote?
Varying Viewpoints:
Reform: Who? What? How? and Why?
18. Were 19th century reformers compassionate, religious people;
fanatics who didn't care if their actions had negative results; or
conservatives who wanted to control the lower classes? Explain.
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