Download Name: APUSH: Antebellum Religion, Second Great Awakening

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APUSH: Antebellum Religion, Second Great Awakening; Antebellum Arts & Literature
Key Concept: 4.1.II.A, 4.1.III.A
American Pageant: Pages 323-324, 332-340
Amsco: Pages 208-210, 212-217
Part I: Directions: Read the text and answer the following questions.
1.
Describe the changes in American religion that were taking place in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
2.
Why were women attracted to the Second Great Awakening?
3.
What effect did the Second Great Awakening have on organized religion?
4.
Who were some of the American writers who emerged and were recognized worldwide for their ability? What works
were they known for? What made them uniquely American?
5.
Who were some of the transcendentalists mentioned? What were they best known for?
6.
Name three important American writers mentioned in the section “Glowing Literary Lights”. Explain the significance of
each.
7.
Name some of the important American writers in the section “Literary Individualists and Dissenters”. Explain the
significance of each.
8.
How did the geographic background of early historians affect the history they wrote?
Part II (Terms): For each of the terms below, define and know its historical significance.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The Age of Reason
Deism
Unitarianism
Second Great Awakening
Camp Meetings
Charles Finney
Burned-Over District
Millerites
Knickerbocker Group
Washington irving
James Fenimore Cooper
William Cullen Bryant
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walden: Or Life in the Woods
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
James Russell Lowell
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Louisa May Alcott
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
George Bancroft
William H. Prescott
Francis Parkman
Part III: AP Exam: Each of the tasks below corresponds with a thematic learning objective that is listed in the AP Course
Description. Remember, that these are things that you MUST be able to do on the AP US History Exam.
1. Analyze the role of economic, political, social, and ethnic factors on the formation of regional identities in what would become the United States from
the colonial period through the 19th century. (ID-5)
2. Analyze how emerging conceptions of national identity and democratic ideals shaped value systems, gender roles, and cultural movements in the late
18th and the 19th century. (CUL-2)
3. Analyze how competing conceptions of national identity were expressed in the development of political institutions and cultural values from the late
colonial through the antebellum periods. (ID-1)
4. Analyze ways that philosophical, moral, and scientific ideas were used to defend and challenge the dominant economic and social order in the 19th
century. (CUL-5)*
5. Explain how activist groups and reform movements, such as antebellum reformers, have caused changes to state institutions and U.S. society. (POL3)*