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AP US 1 Chapter 15
AP "The American Pageant" by Kennedy, Cohen, and Bailey, Chapter 15 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Unitarian | - God in one person (no Trinity) - humans-> good - free will & salvation through good works - God-> loving Father |
| Deists | - reason, not revelation - rejected divinity of Christ - believed in a Supreme Being |
| Longfellow | - Popular poet - wrote "Evangeline", "The Song of Hiawatha". and "The Courtship of Miles Standish" |
| Hawthorne | - Puritan - wrote "The Scarlet Letter" |
| Melville | - wrote about the South Seas - wrote "Moby Dick" |
| Edgar Allen Poe | - wrote morbid short stories and poems - wrote "The Raven" |
| Emerson | - believed in self reliance & self discipline - Phi Betta Kappa address-> "The American Scholar" |
| Whitman | - wrote "Leaves of Grass" (controversial book of poems" - lived in Camden, NJ |
| Thoreau | - wrote "Walden: Or Life in the Woods" - wrote "Civil Disobedience" (later inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.) |
| J. F. Cooper | - wrote "The Leatherstocking Tales" - wrote "The Last of the Mohicans" - writings about the forest, nature, etc. |
| W. Irving | - a Knickerbocker - wrote "The Legends of Sleepy Hollow" - wrote "The Sketch Book" |
| Transcendentalism | - knowledge transcends the senses - individualism - self reliance |
| Knickerbocker group | - based in NY - group of writers who used American themes instead of European influences |
| Hudson River School | - American landscape painters |
| Oneida | - in NY - Mutual Criticism - complex marriage (aka free love) - lived under one building - selective breeding - turned into a silver company |
| Turner, Vessey, and Prosser | - all had to do with slave rebellions - Nat Turner's (1830) was the most influential |
| F. Douglass | - ex-slave - inspiring speeches - editor of the newspaper "The North Star" |
| W. L. Garrison | - "The Liberator"-> antislavery newspaper - wanted immediate abolition of slavery - wanted the North to secede from the South - radical abolitionist |
| Margaret Fuller | - edited "The Dial" - unity & republican gov for Italy |
| Mary Patterson | -1st African American female to get a college degree |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | - 1st female to graduate from a medical school |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | - advocate for suffrage - read "The Declaration of Sentiments" at woman's rights convention. It said that all men and women are created equal. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | - wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (very influential book) |
| American Peace Society | - fought against war - W. Ladd and J. Burritt were members |
| Dorothea Dix | - worked for better conditions for the mentally ill |
| Oberlin College | - 1st to open its doors to women in 1837 |
| Webster | - "Schoolmaster of the Republic" - reading lessons for children - wrote a dictionary (standardized the American language) |
| H. Mann | - ideas-> tax-supported free public schooling |
| Brigham Young | - neighbors of the Mormons outraged b/c of Mormon polygamy, voting as a group, etc. - Young led the Mormons across Utah |
| Joseph Smith | - supposedly received golden plates from an angel - plates translated into the Book of Mormon - he was killed by a mob |
| Millerites | - believed Christ would return to earth on October 22, 1844 |
| The Second Great Awakening | - encouraged new sects of religion - camp meetings - Methodists & Baptists got the most followers - Charles Grandison Finney-> great revival preacher |
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