Chapter XV: The Ferment of Reform and Culture

REVISED

1. Would a deist be likely to agree with Thomas Paine's opinion on organized religion? Why or Why not?
   
2. How is revivalism related to the Second Great Awakening?
   
3. Which sects grew the most during the early 1800's? How come?
   
4. How were the Mormons an exceptional religious sect? What happened to them after their leader Joseph Smith was murdered?
5. What kinds of effects did Horace Mann, Noah Webster, and William McGuffey have upon public schools in the United States?
   
6. How was Oberlin an exceptional university of the 1840's?
7. Why might both R.W. Emerson and Susan B. Anthony be found at a Chautauqua? Why would you not expect to find H.D. Thoreau present?
8. Why is Neil Dow given the nickname " the father of Prohibition"?
9. What was the most famous achievement of women's right advocates by 1850? To what extent had women begun to approach social, economic, and political equality with men by that time?
10. What was unusual about he Oneida community? What happened to it? How were the shakers different from most religious sects? Why were you glad that the Shakers ultimately failed to achieve their goals?
11. What is "Romanticism"? Which American writers could rightly be called romantic? Why?
    
12. What is "Transcendentalism"? Who were the most famous transcendentalists in American history?
    
13. Why should Mr. Rudolph think that Francis Parkman and William Prescott were pretty cool?
    
14. Identify:
    
    • George Bancroft
      
    • Herman Melville
      
    • H. W. Longfellow
      
    • Hudson River School
      
    • Patent medicines
      
    • Nathaniel Bowditch
      
    • Brook Farm
      
    • Robert Owen
      
    • Lucy Stone
      
    • Elizabeth Stanton