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
Second great awakening
How did the Second Great Awakening begin?
Frontier camp meetings called revivals
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little or no alcohol
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Gallaudet University
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
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
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionist
Who was thirst well known abolitionist?
Fredrick Douglas
What was the name of the newspaper that Douglas edited?
North Star
What did Douglas believed destroyed Americas idea of freedom?
Injustice of slavery
What did Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
Purchased his freedom
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sonjourner Truth
Where was Sonjourner Truth born?
New York
Why did Truth choose her name
Because she said “ I will wake in the light of gods truth”
What was a network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved ppl
The Underground Railroad
Where was the first women’s rights convention
The Seneca falls
What was the first controversial issue at the Seneca falls convention
Women’s suffrage
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott fight for
Right to vote
Who was the Quaker who helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards women’s suffrage
Lucretia Mott
Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation
Susan b
What did the 19 amendment do
Made women’s suffrage a reality in every state
