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Chapter 13 – An American Renaissance
1. How did the Second Great Awakening help to create a more democratic society?
3. Describe a ‘revival’ and why were people on the frontier drawn to them?
5. Define the term “transcendentalism”
6. What were the beliefs that Emerson brought into his teachings of transcendentalism?
a.
b.
c.
7. Henry David Thoreau was a ‘student’ of Emerson, and he brought his own personal
view of how man should live into the transcendentalist movement. How did
Henry David say man should live?
8. Henry David didn’t really invent the practice of ‘civil disobedience’ but he sure
wrote and spoke out about it. Explain how civil disobedience works and do you
know anyone who has followed his way of life?
9. Why did Henry David go to Walden Pond? And then why did he leave ?
10. James Fenimore Cooper has been called America’s first true author, why?
11. Poe, Hawthorne, Melville all helped to develop what style of literature?
12. Walt Whitman has been described as a writer who was way out there in what
he wrote and how he wrote. What did people of his time have against his writing?
13. Who is known as the Father of Public Education? Why, what did he do to earn that
title?
14. Explain why there were fewer public school in the South than in the North? Where
did the kids who lived down south go to school?
15. How did a girl’s education differ from a boy’s? Was this separation good for both
genders? Explain.
16. Why did the ‘temperance’ movement gain such a large following of support at
this time?
17. Dorothea Dix was one of the first true crusaders for prison reform. What did she
notice when she went and researched how the prisons in this country were run and
organized?
19. Women’s Rights were a very hot topic during this period of our history. What were
some of the rights that women were asking for?
a.
b.
c.
20. Make sure you know the names of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Antony
two of the early pioneers for women’s rights. What happened at Seneca Falls
21. Describe what Brook Farm in Massachusetts was. How did it work?
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