Chapter 15

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

Began with frontier camp meetings called revivals

Question 4

What does temperance mean?

Answer 4

It means you drink little to 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

Cared for the mentally ill

Question 7

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

Answer 7

He was Americas first internationally famous author with the story the legend of sleepy hollow

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Uncle Toms Cabin

Question 9

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 9

Harriet Beecher

Question 10

Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

Answer 10

Abolitionist

Question 11

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

Answer 11

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 12

Who was the most well known abolitionist?

Answer 12

Fredrick Douglass

Question 13

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

Answer 13

North Star

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Injustice of slavery

Question 15

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

Answer 15

He bought his slavery

Question 16

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

Answer 16

Sojourner Truth

Question 17

Where was Sojourner Truth born?

Answer 17

Born as a slave in New York

Question 18

Why did Truth choose her new name?

Answer 18

Because she said “I will walk in the light of gods truth”

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The Underground Railroad

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

Womans right to vote or suffrage

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Suffrage, right to vote

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Lucretia Mott

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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Question 26

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

Answer 26

Susan B. Anthony

Question 27

What did the 19th Amendment do?

Answer 27

Made wemons suffrage a reality in every state