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 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Began with 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?
Being the first internationally famous author after writing, “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionists
Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete emancipation of slaves?
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Frederick Douglas
What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?
The North Star
What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
Injustice of slavery
What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
Purchase his freedom.
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sojourner Truth
Where was Sojourner Truth born?
New York as a slave.
Why did Truth choose her new name?
She said that she walked “in the light of God’s truth”.
What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
Underground Railroads
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls, NY
What was the most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s rights
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both fight for?
Women’s suffrage
Who was the Quaker that helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards women’s suffrage?
Lucretia Mott
