The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy



Key Topics

Deism & Unitarianism

Second Great Awakening

Mormons

Public Education

Lyceum Lecture series

Treatment of debtors, prisoners & “insane”

More Key Terms & Events

Temperance Movement

Maine Law, 1851

Women’s Movement (Seneca Falls)

Utopian Movements

Transcendentalism

Literary and artistic trends

Hudson River School of painting

Key People

Peter Cartwright

Charles Grandison Finney

Joseph Smith

Brigham Young

Horace Mann

Noah Webster

Dorothea Dix

Neal S. Dow

Catherine Beecher

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony

Robert Owen

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Authors & Poets

Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Louisa May Alcott

Edgar Allen Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Religious Revival & Reform

1. How were the beliefs of Unitarianism fundamentally different from Protestant denominations of the time?

2. How did the Second Great Awakening affect existing religion in American life, and how did it reflect the trends leading to the Civil War?

3. Compare and contrast the First and Second Great Awakenings.

4. Why were neighbors of the early Mormons under Joseph Smith so hostile to their ideas, and what was the long-term effect of that expressed hostility?

Education Goes Public

5. What led the wealthier classes to favor tax-supported public education after their initial resistance?

6. What were some of the weaknesses of the earliest public schools?

7. How did Horace Mann and Noah Webster influence public education?

8. How did the colleges founded by religious reformers differ from the established institutions of the time?

9. What were thought to be the negative affects of education on women?

Social Reforms

10. How did social reform movements arise out of the Second Great Awakening, & what were other influences?

11. What was Dorothea Dix’s argument in favor of the “insane” and what was its influence?

12. What spurred the rise of the temperance Movement in America, and how was it different from Dow’s Prohibition Movement?

13. What was accomplished at the Seneca Falls Convention, & why was its message unsuccessful in the short term?

Utopias

14. How did the Utopian movements of the early 19th century reflect long-standing American attitudes and ideals?

15. Which Utopian movements were most successful, and why?

Cultural Achievements

16. What were the limitations on American art and architecture during this period?

17. What were the characteristics of the artistic movements that did arise?

18. How did the Transcendentalist Movement reflect and differ from general American attitudes of the time?

19. What were the contributions of Emerson and Thoreau in particular?

20. What trends can be observed in American literature in the first half of the 19th century?

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