Chapter 15 Flashcards
Communities based on a perfect society
Utopia
Wave of religious fervor in the 1800s
Second Great Awakening
How did the Second GA begin?
Temperance, revivals, and reforms
What is temperance
Drinking little or no alcohol
First school for the hearing impaired
Gallaudet Univ.
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Reformed care for mentally disabled
What was Washington Irving famous for?
Sleepy Hollow
Novel explaining the evils of slavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Reformers for abolishing slavery
Abolitionists
First white abolitionist calling for immediate emancipation
William Lloyd Garrison
Most famous abolitionist
Fredrick Douglass
Newspaper that F.D edited
The North Star
What did F.D think ruined American freedom ideals?
Slavery
What did F.D do with the help of friends in 1847
Purchase out of slavery
Women’s Rights Abolitionist
Sojourner Truth
Where was Sojourner Truth born?
New York
Why did Sojourner Truth change her name?
“I will walk in the light of God’s truth”
Network of escape for slaves
Underground Railroad
Most famous conductor
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first womens rights meetup
Seneca Falls
Most controversial issue at the convention
Suffrage
What did Stanton and Mott fight for
Abolition of slavery
Quaker that fought for women’s rights
Lucretia Mott
Who called for equal pay, same jobs, and coeducation
Elizabeth Stanton
19th amendment
Right for women to vote
