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 Awaking
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Began 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?
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 Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Tubman
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 Loyd Garrison
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
How did he learn how to read and write?
Taught himself
What was the name of the newspaper that abolitionist edited?
“North Star”
