Chapter 15 Flashcards
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
2 great awaking
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Reveals
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little to no achcol
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Galluntant university
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Reformed care for meantaly ill
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th
century
Uncle toms cabin
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolishists
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?
The North Star
What did Frederick Douglass 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 Sojourner Truth born?
New York as a slave
Why did Truth choose her new name?
I will have 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 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 right to vote
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both fight for?
Women’s right to vote
Who was the Quaker that helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards
women’s suffrage?
Lucrative Mott
Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of
Independence Natural Rights.
I know
