Chapter 15

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Utopias

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The second great awakening

Question 3

How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?

Answer 3

With frontier camp meetings called revivals

Question 4

What does temperance mean?

Answer 4

Drinking 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

Reform 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 slavery and was the best seller of the 19th century?

Answer 8

Uncle Toms Cabin

Question 9

Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?

Answer 9

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 10

Who were reformers who wanted to end slavery?

Answer 10

Abolitionists

Question 11

Who was the first white abolitionist who wanted the total emancipation of slaves?

Answer 11

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 12

The most well known abolitionist?

Answer 12

Frederick Douglas

Question 13

The name of the newspaper Frederick Douglas edited?

Answer 13

The North Star

Question 14

What did Frederick Douglas believe destroyed Americas ideals of liberty?

Answer 14

Slavery

Question 15

What did Frederick Douglas do with the 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

“I will walk in the light of God’s truth”

Question 19

The network of escape routes for enslaved people?

Answer 19

The Underground Railroad

Question 20

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

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Women’s suffrage

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Women’s suffrage

Question 24

The Quaker who helped runaway slaves and fought for women’s suffrage?

Answer 24

Lucretia Mott

Question 25

Who called for equal pay, college training and coeducation?

Answer 25

Susan B. Anthony

Question 26

What did the 19th amendment do?

Answer 26

Give women the right to vote