Chapter 18 FA Study Guide

What was the religious revival that spread across the

country in the early 1800’s

• Transcendentalism

• The Second Great Awakening

• The 1st Great Awakening

• Abolition

All of the Following are true about the Second Great Awakening EXCEPT:

• a religious revival that spread across the
  country in the early 1800’s

• the 2nd Great Awakening was very

  weak in the West but popular in the North

• preachers like Charles Finney believed
  people could create a “heaven on Earth,”
  and he spoke out against slavery

• salvation came by focusing on good
  deeds and asking for forgiveness

Who believed people could create a “heaven on Earth,”

and had spoken out against slavery?

• Brook Farm

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo
  Emerson

• Charles Finney

What was the philosophy led by Ralph Waldo

Emerson taught that people

had to go beyond

logical thought?

• Abolition

• Transcendentalism

• Reformation

• Evolution

All of the Following are True about Transcendentalism EXCEPT:

• a philosophy led by Ralph Waldo
  Emerson that taught that people
  had to “transcend” or go beyond
  logical thought

• 
  transcendentalists questioned
  societies rules and institutions

• Charles Finney lived in
  solitude and close to nature

• others built “model communities”
  such as Brook Farm to live in
  “brotherly cooperation”

Who led to reform the jails,

prisons and mental institutions?

• Dorothea Dix

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• William Lloyd Garrison

• The Quakers

All of the following are true about Prisoners and the Mentally Il/Dorothea Dix EXCEPT:

• Dorothea Dix led to reform the jails,

  prisons and mental institutions

• she visited hundreds of institutions and
  prepared a report to the Massachusetts
  legislature

• her report shocked the public and led to
  many changes including no longer
  putting debtors in prison and creating
  special hospitals for the mentally ill

• graduated at the top

  of her class to be the 1st female doctor

  but no hospitals would work with her

In the early 1800s, school was only

for _____

• Who could afford it

• everyone

• for the poor

• whites

Who led the movement for

public schools – (school paid for by

taxes for the good of the community)?

• Theodore Weld

• Horace Mann

• Fredrick Douglass

• Angelica Grimke

All of the following are true about the movement of Improving Education EXCEPT:

• In cities, many poor children had little
  opportunity to improve and often got
  into trouble

• 
  Horace Mann led the movement for
  public schools – (school paid for by
  taxes for the good of the community)

• Mann’s work led to a bit better schools, but didn't make a complete impact

• In the early 1800’s, school was only
  for those who could afford it