Identifications
01. “republican mother” - The old generation consisted of ignorant mothers, but now the republican mothers were concerned in creating a network of female academics throughout the nation and soon public schools served females because of these mothers’ movement. 02. Benjamin Rush - Leader of the first American medical school in early nineteenth century. He was an advocate of the new and supposedly scientific techniques of bleeding and purging, and many patients died. 05. deism - Originated among Enlightenment philosophers in France and practiced by Jefferson and Franklin. Deists accepted the existence of God, but considered Him a remote being who, after having created the universe, had withdrawn from direct involvement with the human race and its sins. 06. Unitarianism - Emerged first as a dissenting view within the New England Congregational Church. They rejected Calvinist belief of predestination, but that salvation was available to all.