6-4 to 6-6 Review

Question 1

Mormons

Answer 1

Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Led by Brigham Young to present-day Utah to escape persecution in the east.

Question 2

Transcendentalism

Answer 2

Literary and philosophical movement based on finding spiritual reality through nature and consciousness of self. Emerson and Thoreau were writers of this movement.

Question 3

Public School Movement

Answer 3

In the 1840s, this movement to provide free education for all children spread rapidly throughout the nation.

Question 4

Temperance Movement

Answer 4

An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption.

Question 5

Abolitionist Movement

Answer 5

The movement concentrated on ending slavery in the United States.

Question 6

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 6

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper “The Liberator”, and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Question 7

Frederick Douglass

Answer 7

United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North.

Question 8

Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Answer 8

The first national women’s rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written. It was held in New York State.

Question 9

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 9

(1815-1902) A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women’s rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women. Co-founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869.

Question 10

suffrage

Answer 10

The legal right to vote.

Question 11

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 11

Social reformer who campaigned for women’s rights, the temperance, and was an abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association.