Chapter 15

Question 1

How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?

Answer 1

Wave of religious fervor

Question 2

What does temperance mean?

Answer 2

Drinking little or no alcohol

Question 3

What did Dorothea Dix do?

Answer 3

Reformed care for the mentally ill

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Americas first internationally famous author. He wrote “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Question 5

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 5

Harriet Beecher

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Utopias

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Uncle Toms Cabin

Question 9

Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

Answer 9

Abolitionists

Question 10

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

Answer 10

They helped him purchase his freedom from his original slaveholder

Question 11

What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

Answer 11

Gallaudet University

Question 12

Who was the most well known abolitionist?

Answer 12

Frederick Douglass

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Injustice of slavery

Question 14

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

Answer 14

Sojourner Truth

Question 15

Where was Sojourner Truth born?

Answer 15

New York

Question 16

Why did Truth choose her new name?

Answer 16

She wanted to walk “in the light of Gods truth”

Question 17

What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?

Answer 17

North Star

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Underground Railroad

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Second Great awakening

Question 19

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

Answer 19

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 20

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Answer 20

Harriet Tubman

Question 21

Where was the first women’s rights convention?

Answer 21

Seneca Falls, New York

Question 22

What was the most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 22

Women’s suffrage

Question 23

What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both fight for?

Answer 23

Women’s suffrage

Question 24

Who was the Quaker that helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards
women’s suffrage?

Answer 24

Lucretia Mott

Question 25

Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?

Answer 25

Susan B Anthony

Question 26

What did the 19th Amendment do?

Answer 26

Made women’s suffrage a reality in every state

Question 27

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

Answer 27

Constitution-We the People

Declaration of Independence-We hold these truths to be self evident…