Chapter 15 Questions Flashcards
Who is one of the most important leaders of the second great awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
Who campaigned to improve the treatment of mentally ill people throughout the US
Dorthea Dix
What did Sarah Grimke argue that woman should receive
Equal pay for women, equal educational opportunities for women
Who were three important figures who believed in transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau
What was the goal of the know nothing party
To keep Catholics in immigrants out of public office
What did Ann lee establish
The shakers community
What did abolitionist want for all enslaved African-Americans
They wanted emancipation
What was the name of the first women’s rights meeting? Who organize it?
- Seneca Falls convention
* Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What was the name of the first college level institution for women in the US
Troy female academy
Who were two other important figures from the Seneca Falls convention
Lucy stone and Susan B Anthony
Who was Frederick Douglass? List three facts about him
- Escaped from slavery and became one of the most important African-American later’s
- Great public speaker, secretly learned how to read and write
What was the declaration of sentiments? What document was it modeled after?
- It detailed their believes about social injustice towards women
- Declaration of Independence
Who started the first college level institution for women
Emma Willard
What was the Underground Railroad
A network of people arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives or escape slaves
What caused many families in Ireland to starve him to move to the US
Potato blight
