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Chapter 15 Flashcards

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

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Utopias

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

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Second great awaking

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How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?

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The revival

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What does temperance mean?

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Little or no alcohol

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What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

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Galledet university

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What did Dorothea Dix do?

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Reform care for the mentally ill

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

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The legend of sleepy hollow

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

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Uncle toms cabin

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet breach Stowe

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Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

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Abolitionist

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

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William Lloyd garrison

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Who was the most well known abolitionist?

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Fredrick Douglass

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

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The North Star

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

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The injustice of slavery

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

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Purchased his freedom

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Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

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Sojourner Truth

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Where was Sojourner Truth born?

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Born as a slave in New York

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Why did Truth choose her new name?

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

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

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The Underground Railroad

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Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

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Where was the first women’s rights convention?

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Seneca falls

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

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Suffrage- right to vote

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

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Women’s suffrage

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

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Lucretia Mott

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

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Susan Bl Antony

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What did the 19th Amendment do?

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Women rights

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