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Chapter 8 Study Guide
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The Second Great Awakening
o Who was the preacher who helped to launch it?
o Approximately when (year) did it begin?
o What beliefs did these preachers REJECT?
o What beliefs did these preachers EMPHASIZE or ACCEPT?
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Transcendentalism
o Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
o What was transcendentalism?
o Who was Henry David Thoreau?
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Utopian Communities
o What is a “utopia”?
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School and Prison Reform
o Who was Dorothea Dix? What reform did she encourage?
o Who was Horace Mann? What reform did he encourage?
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Abolition & Slavery
o What is abolition?
o Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
o What is emancipation?
o Who was Frederick Douglass? Make sure you are familiar of his background, life,
and accomplishments.
o What was The Liberator?
o What was The North Star? Who wrote it?
o What arguments did Southerners make to defend slavery?
o What arguments did abolitionists make to end slavery? Name the abolitionists who
made these arguments or came up with these ideas.
o Who was Nat Turner? What did he do?
o Define a “gag rule”. In 1836, what did Southerners seek a “gag” rule to prevent?
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Women & Reform
o What is the “cult of domesticity”? What did this tradition say that women should
be involved in?
o What was the temperance movement?
o What was the “Seneca Falls Convention?”
o What was the “Declaration of Sentiments”? What was it modeled after?
o Who originally worked in the Lowell mills?
o Who was Sojourner Truth? Why did people not believe in her, at first?
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Mill Workers & Immigration
o Which group of people worked at mills manufacturing clothing in the early 1800s?
o Name some difficulties and problems that mill workers faced.
o Describe the differences between a master, a journeyman, and an apprentice.
o In case of a strike, who could companies rely on to serve as “strikebreakers”?
o What was the National Trades Union? What made it unusual for its time?
o Know the effects of the Commonwealth v. Hunt case. What was decided?
o Were most early strikes successful? Explain.
o What happened to the US population regarding immigrants between the 1830s and
1860s?
o Name ways that workers responded to conditions in factories in the 1800s.