Chapter 12 pages 388-392 and pages 403-418

1. What was the Second Great Awakening all about?

2. What was Ralph Waldo Emerson's role in intellectualizing the need for reform? How did Hawthorne and Melville reflect similar attitudes? Why has Henry David Thoreau been a major influence in the 20th century? Can you figure out transcendentalism or do you need help from your English teacher?

3. Egalitarian means advocating political, economic, and legal equality for all. Was egalitarianism very well developed in the United States during the first half of the 1800's? You may want to think about who elected Jackson and what Alexis de Tocqueville said about the United States.

4. Looking at the table on page 403 how general were the causes for reform?

5. What did utopian communities like Oneida, the Shakers and Brook Farm try to do? Who are the Mormons and what happens to them?

6. Why was temperance such a critical issue? What were the goals of the movement? What did Sylvester Graham come up with that we still have? What did Dorothea Dix do?

7. Who are Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth and how do they fit into the abolitionist movement? How well was the abolitionist movement accepted in the North?

8. How is the women's movement of this period and the anti-slavery movement tied together? What did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton try to do at the Seneca Falls meeting?