The Development of an American Culture - AP U.S. History

To establish a communal living society. Radical religious community practicing complex marriage and eugenics.

Washington Irving. Early American author who created distinctly American folklore.

It was a prominent abolitionist publication. William Lloyd Garrison's influential anti-slavery newspaper.

To relocate freed slaves to Africa. Controversial plan to remove freed slaves from America.

To establish public education. Standardized curriculum and teacher training nationwide.

Declaration of Sentiments. Modeled after the Declaration of Independence for women's rights.

To create a utopian society. Transcendentalist communal experiment in cooperative living.

Henry David Thoreau. Transcendentalist who practiced simple living and civil disobedience.

To end slavery. Moral crusade against the institution of slavery.

It aimed to reduce alcohol consumption. Social reform movement targeting alcohol's societal harms.

'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. Galvanized anti-slavery sentiment in the North before Civil War.

It was the first women's rights convention. Launched the organized women's suffrage movement in America.

To promote adult education through public lectures. Brought culture and learning to small American towns.

Common School Movement. Led by Horace Mann to establish free public education.

Religious revivalism. Protestant revival movement emphasizing personal salvation and reform.

Transcendentalism. Key American philosophical movement of the mid-19th century.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wrote this classic novel exploring Puritan guilt and sin.

It was an art movement focused on landscape painting. Celebrated American natural beauty and national identity through art.

James Fenimore Cooper. Early American novelist who romanticized frontier life.

A period of flourishing American literature and culture. Mid-19th century flowering of distinctly American arts and literature.

Emphasis on emotion and nature. Artistic reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and industrialization.

Celibacy and communal living. Religious sect known for furniture crafting and dance worship.

Henry David Thoreau. Advocated peaceful resistance to unjust government laws.

Frederick Douglass. Escaped slave who became powerful orator and writer.

It was the first women's rights convention. Launched the organized women's suffrage movement in America.

It aimed to reduce alcohol consumption. Social reform movement targeting alcohol's societal harms.

It was a prominent abolitionist publication. William Lloyd Garrison's influential anti-slavery newspaper.

'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. Galvanized anti-slavery sentiment in the North before Civil War.

To relocate freed slaves to Africa. Controversial plan to remove freed slaves from America.