Chapter 15 Flashcards

1
Q

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

A

Utopias

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2
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What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?

A

Second Great Awakening

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3
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How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?

A

Frontier camp meetings called revivals

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4
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What does temperance mean?

A

Drinking little or no alcohol

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5
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What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

A

Gallaudet University

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6
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What did Dorothea Dix do?

A

Reformed care for the mentally ill

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7
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What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?

A

Famous author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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8
Q

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

A

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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9
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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

A

Harriet Beecher

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10
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Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

A

Abolitionist

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11
Q

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

A

William Lloyd Garrison

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12
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Who was the most well known abolitionist?

A

Fredrick Douglass

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13
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What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?

A

North Star

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14
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What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?

A

The injustice of slavery

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15
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What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?

A

Purchase his freedom from his original slaveholder

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16
Q

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

A

Sojourner Truth

17
Q

Where was Sojourner Truth born?

A

New York

18
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Why did Truth choose her new name?

A

She said,”I will walk in the light of God’s truth”

19
Q

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

A

The Underground Railroad

20
Q

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

A

Harriet Tubman

21
Q

Where was the first women’s rights convention?

A

Seneca Falls, New York

22
Q

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

A

Women’s suffrage

23
Q

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

A

Women’s suffrage

24
Q

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

A

Lucretia Mott

25
Q

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

A

Susan B. Anthony

26
Q

What did the 19th Amendment do?

A

Gave women the right to vote

27
Q

Constitution Preamble

A

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

28
Q

Declaration of Independence Natural Rights.

A

“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”