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 Awaking
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Revivals
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little to 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?
America’s 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 Tom’s Cabin
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionist
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?
Fredrick Douglass
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?
Bought his freedom
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sojourner Truth
Where was Sojourner Truth born?
New York
Why did Truth choose her new name?
She said “ I will walk in the light of God’s truth”
What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
Underground Railroad
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls Convention
What was the most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s suffrage
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
Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of Independence Natural Rights.
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:
“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?
Susan B. Anthony
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Women’s suffrage a reality in every state
