Question

Match the defintion to the correct term.

Column A
1. transcendental author of the book, Walden
2. formed a “utopian” community in New Harmony, Indiana
3. fought to place the mentally ill in hospitals for treatment rather than prisons
4. emphasized living a simple life and a relationship with nature over materialism
5. religion that stressed the inherent goodness of humankind
6. peaceful form of protest
7. father of revivalism during the Second Great Awakening
8. emotional meetings rousing religious faith by passionate preaching and prayer
9. a leader in educational reform who improved school curriculum and established teacher training programs
10. a religious resurgence during the early 1800s, which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching

Column B
a. revival
b. Dorothea Dix
c. unitarianism
d. civil disobedience
e. Horace Mann
f. Charles Grandison Finney
g. Robert Owen
h. Second Great Awakening
i. transcendentalism
j. Henry David Thoreau

Answer 1

Here are the matched definitions:

1. transcendental author of the book, Walden - **j. Henry David Thoreau**
2. formed a “utopian” community in New Harmony, Indiana - **g. Robert Owen**
3. fought to place the mentally ill in hospitals for treatment rather than prisons - **b. Dorothea Dix**
4. emphasized living a simple life and a relationship with nature over materialism - **i. transcendentalism**
5. religion that stressed the inherent goodness of humankind - **c. unitarianism**
6. peaceful form of protest - **d. civil disobedience**
7. father of revivalism during the Second Great Awakening - **f. Charles Grandison Finney**
8. emotional meetings rousing religious faith by passionate preaching and prayer - **a. revival**
9. a leader in educational reform who improved school curriculum and established teacher training programs - **e. Horace Mann**
10. a religious resurgence during the early 1800s, which spread religion through revivals and emotional preaching - **h. Second Great Awakening**