Chapter 12

Question 1

Phrenology

Answer 1

Science based on skull measurements

Question 2

American Colonization Society

Answer 2

Gradualist abolitionist movement focused on freeing slaves and compensating owners

Question 3

Walt Whitman

Answer 3

Gay poet

Leaves of Grass

Question 4

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 4

• blithedale romance trashing Brooks Farm

- Scarlett Letter

Question 5

Transcendentalism

Answer 5

Movement based on emotions away from intellect

Question 6

Grimké sisters

Answer 6

Women and men are equal

Question 7

Seneca Falls

Answer 7

Convention for women's rights 
-Susan B Anthony 
-Lucretia Motts
-Elizabeth Cody Stanton
Created Declaration of the Sentiments

Question 8

Amistad

Answer 8

Spanish slave vessel

-setting for legal battle between abolitionists and non abolitionists

Question 9

Charles Grandison Finney

Answer 9

Evangelistic presbyterian minister

• most influential revival leader of 1820s and 1830s
• each person has the capacity to experience spiritual rebirth and achieve salvation

Question 10

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 10

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

- abolitionist propaganda

Question 11

Horace Mann

Answer 11

• first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education
• education was the only way to protect democracy
• Lengthened school year, doubled’s teacher salaries, trained teachers better

Question 12

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 12

Weekly newspaper “The Liberator”

• white abolitionist
• should view slavery from black viewpoint
• American Antislavery Society

Question 13

Joseph Smith

Answer 13

Published Book of Mormon

Gather followers to establish Mormon community

Question 14

American Society for the promotion of Temperance

Answer 14

Draw crowds

• talk about past sins
• promote moral self-improvement of individuals
• impose discipline

Question 15

Cholera

Answer 15

Bacterial infection from consuming contaminated food/water

-lead to health reform

Question 16

Sylvester Graham

Answer 16

Prescribed healthy eating

Question 17

William Morton

Answer 17

Anesthetics

Pulling teeth

Question 18

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Answer 18

Discovered contagion

Question 19

Governor William Seward

Answer 19

NY

extend public support of schools

Question 20

Bronson Alcott

Answer 20

Experimental school in concord

• importance of complete self-realization.
• children teach selves

Question 21

Benevolent Empire

Answer 21

Network of charitable activities

-Perkins School for the Blind

Question 22

Dorothea Dix

Answer 22

Reformer Massachusetts

-begin national movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill

Question 23

Reservation

Answer 23

Idea of creating an enclosed region in which Indians would live in isolation from white society

Question 24

Bloomer

Answer 24

Type of outfit women wear to promote feminism

-eventually stop wearing it bc it’s distracting

Question 25

Sojourner Truth

Answer 25

Free black woman
Spokesperson for abolition
Religious cult

Question 26

David Walker

Answer 26

Militant abolitionist

Violent rhetoric

Question 27

Personal Liberty Laws

Answer 27

Forbid state officials to capture/return runaways after Prigg v Pennsylvania

Question 28

Free soil

Answer 28

Keep slavery out of the territories

Main point of Liberty Party

Question 29

Frederick Douglass

Answer 29

Runaway slave abolitionist