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

Frontier camp meetings

Question 4

What does temperance mean?

Answer 4

Drinking little or 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

Reformed care for the mentally ill

Question 7

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

Answer 7

America’s first internationally famous author. 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 Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stoue

Question 9

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 9

Harriet Beecher Stoue

Question 10

Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

Answer 10

Abolitionists

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

The North Star

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The injustice of slavery

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Purchase his freedom

Question 16

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

Answer 16

Sojourner Truth

Question 17

Where was Sojourner Truth born?

Answer 17

New York

Question 18

Why did Truth choose her new name?

Answer 18

She said “I will walk in the light of God’s 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

Women’s suffrage/ right to vote

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

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

Answer 25

Constitution Preamble-“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.”
Declaration of Independence Natural Rights-“Form small groups to discuss the meaning of the three natural rights that Jefferson identified in the Declaration of Independence: “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

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 women’s suffrage a reality in every state