| A | B |
|---|
| Cult of True Womanhood | pious, pure, submissive, and domesticated; at home on a pedestal |
| temperance | moderation or abstention in the use of alcoholic beverages |
| doctrine of two spheres | husbands earn income; male in public, female in private |
| abolitionism | movement to end slavery |
| Second Great Awakening | assault on Calvinism; stressed mercy and love of God |
| people can control own fate, earn own salvation | Second Great Awakening |
| American Temperance Society | 1826; began crusade against drunkenness, |
| benevolent empire | voluntary associations organized to do good work |
| organized to make society over into what middle class God thought it should be | benevolent empire |
| Liberator | Wm Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper |
| American Colonization Society | 1817; purchased land in Liberia for to segregate freed slaves |
| Liberty party | Arthur and Lewis Tappan broke with Garrison; James Birney for president in 1840 and 1844 |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848; Declaration of Sentiments |
| Declaration of Sentiments | Men and women created equal |
| Charles G. Finney | Evangelist; salvation available to anyone; take salvation into own hands |
| Robert Owen | British utopian socialist; New Harmony, IN |
| New Harmony, IN | Competition debasing; economic and political equality, challenge sexual and religious mores of Jackson |
| Horace Mann | Common school movement; secretary MA school board; public education to train workers/citizens |
| Dorothea Dix | Sought to improve care for insane |
| William Lloyd Garrison | radical abolitionist; wanted immediate, uncompensated freeing of slaves |
| Theodore Dwight Weld | moderate abolitionist; supported immediate abolition through political activity |
| Frederick Douglass | campaigner against both slavery and racial prejudice |
| Angelina & Sarah Grimke | Began as abolitionists; took up women's rights |
| Lucretia Mott | Organized Seneca Falls convention; abolitionist turned women's rights advocate |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | campaigned for women's right to vote, own property, attend college, and enter the professions; organized Seneca Falls Conv |
| transcendentalism | a mystical, intuitive way of looking at life that subordinated facts to feelings |
| humans could transcend reason and intellectual capacities by having faith in their own intuition and in the fundamental benevolence of the universe. They were complete individualists | transcendentalism |
| Scarlet Letter | reminded perfectionists of futility of crusade |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | . Optimism and self-confidence marked his philosophy; glorified individualism and self-reliance |
| American Scholar | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Henry David Thoreau | leading literary romantic and transcendentalist; admired raw nature and the simple life; |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote of Puritan heritage and its lingering influence |
| Brook Farm | cooperative community popular with intellectuals; lasted 4 years |
| phrenology | character type determined by reading bumps on head |
