Chapter 15

Question 0

What was the village created by a utopian believer?

Answer 0

New Harmony

Question 1

What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?

Answer 1

Utopia

Question 2

What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?

Answer 2

Second Great Awakening

Question 3

How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?

Answer 3

Frontier camps called revivals

Question 4

What does temperance mean?

Answer 4

Drinking little or no alcohol

Question 5

What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

Answer 5

Gallaudet University

Question 6

What did Dorothea Dix do?

Answer 6

Reformed care for mentally ill

Question 7

What were writers Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo
Emerson?

Answer 7

Transcendentalists

Question 8

What did transcendentalists stress?

Answer 8

Their relationship between humans and nature and the human Conscience

Question 9

What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?

Answer 9

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question 10

What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19
century?

Answer 10

Uncle Toms Cabin

Question 11

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 11

Harnet Beecher Stowe

Question 12

Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

Answer 12

Abolitionists

Question 13

Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete
emancipation of slaves?

Answer 13

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 14

Who was the most well known abolitionist?

Answer 14

Fredrick Douglas

Question 15

How did he learn how to read and write?

Answer 15

He taught himself

Question 16

What was the name of the newspaper that abolitionist edited?

Answer 16

The North Star

Question 17

What did Frederick Douglas believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?

Answer 17

Injustice of Slavery

Question 18

What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?

Answer 18

Purchase his freedom

Question 19

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

Answer 19

Sojourner Truth

Question 20

Where was she born?

Answer 20

Slave in NY

Question 21

Why did she choose her new name?

Answer 21

She said “I will walk in The light of God’s truth.”

Question 22

What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?

Answer 22

Underground Railroad

Question 23

Who was the most famous conductor of that system?

Answer 23

Harriet Tubman

Question 24

Where was the first women’s rights convention?

Answer 24

The Seneca Falls Convention, New York

Question 25

What was the most controversial issue at this conference?

Answer 25

Women’s suffrage

Question 26

Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of
Independence Natural Rights.

Answer 26

“We the people” is the Constitution. “We hold these truths to be self evident” is the Declaration of Independence.

Question 27

Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation? What did the 19th Amendment do?

Answer 27

Susan B. Anthony