Chapter 15 Flashcards
What was the village created by a utopian believer?
New Harmony Indiana
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
Second Great Awakin
How did the 2nd
Great Awakening begin?
Began with former camp meetings called revivals
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little or no alcohol,
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Gallaudet University
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Reformed care for the mentally ill
What were writers Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo
Emerson?
Transcendentalists
What did transcendentalists stress?
The relationship between humans and nature and the human conscience
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
Americas first internationally famous author with his story, The Lengend of Sleepy Hollow
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19
century?
Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher
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 Llyod Garrison
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Fredrick Douglass