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?
The Second Great Awakening
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Frontier 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?
Cared for the mentally ill
What were writers Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Famous 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?
America’s first internationally famous author and wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
Uncles Tom’s Cabin
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionist
Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete emancipation of slaves?
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Fredrick Douglass
How did he learn how to read and write?
By himself
What was the name of the newspaper that abolitionist edited?
North Star
What did Frederick Douglas believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
Injustice of slavery
What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
Buy his freedom
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sojourner Truth
Where was she born?
New York
Why did she choose her new name?
She said “I will walk in the light of God’s truth”
What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
Underground Railroad
Who was the most famous conductor of that system?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls, New York
What was the most controversial issue at this conference?
Women’s suffrage
Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of Independence Natural Rights.
Constitution preamble- We the people of the United States
Declaration of Independence- We hold these truths to be self evident
Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?
Susan B. Anthony
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Made woman’s suffrage reality in every state
