Chapter 15 Flashcards
What was the village created by a utopian believer?
New harmony
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
The second great awakening
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Revivals
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little or no alcohol
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Gallaudet
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Made care for ether mentally insane
What were writers Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Transcendent’s
What did transcendentalists stress?
The relationship of man and nature
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
An author , sleepy
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
Uncle toms cabin
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionists
Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete emancipation of slaves?
William Lloyd carrison
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass