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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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