Chapter 15 Flashcards
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Wave of religious fervor
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little or no alcohol
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Reformed care for the mentally ill
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
Americas first internationally famous author. He wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th
century?
Uncle Toms Cabin
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionists
What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
They helped him purchase his freedom from his original slaveholder
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Gallaudet University
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
Injustice of slavery
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sojourner Truth
Where was Sojourner Truth born?
New York
Why did Truth choose her new name?
She wanted to walk “in the light of Gods truth”
What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?
North Star
What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
Underground Railroad
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
Second Great awakening
Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete
emancipation of slaves?
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls, New York
What was the most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s suffrage
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both fight for?
Women’s suffrage
Who was the Quaker that helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards
women’s suffrage?
Lucretia Mott
