Chapter 15 Study Guide

Question 1

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

Answer 1

The Second Great Awakening

Question 2

How did the 2
nd
Great Awakening begin?

Answer 2

It Began with Frontier Camp Meetings called Revivals

Question 3

What does temperance mean?

Answer 3

Drinking Little or No Alcohol

Question 4

What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

Answer 4

Gallaudet University

Question 5

What did Dorothea Dix do?

Answer 5

She Reformed Care for the Mentally Ill

Question 6

What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?

Answer 6

He was America’s First Internationally Famous Author and Wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hallow

Question 7

What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19
century?

Answer 7

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 8

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 8

Harried Beecher Stowe

Question 9

Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

Answer 9

Abolitionists

Question 10

Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete
emancipation of slaves?

Answer 10

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 11

Who was the most well known abolitionist?

Answer 11

Fredric Douglass

Question 12

What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?

Answer 12

The North Star

Question 13

What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?

Answer 13

Injustice of Slavery

Question 14

What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?

Answer 14

He Bought His Freedom

Question 15

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

Answer 15

Sojourner Truth

Question 16

Where was Sojourner Truth born?

Answer 16

New York

Question 17

Why did Truth choose her new name?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?

Answer 18

The Underground Railroad

Question 19

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Answer 19

Harriet Tubman

Question 20

Where was the first women’s rights convention?

Answer 20

Seneca Falls, New York

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Women’s Sufferage/Right to Vote

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Women’s Rights

Question 23

Who was the Quaker that helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards
women’s suffrage?

Answer 23

Lucreatia Mott

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Utopias

Question 25

Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of
Independence Natural Rights.

Answer 25

Constitution- We the People…

Declaration of Independence- We Hold These Truths to be Self Evident…

Question 26

Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?

Answer 26

Susan B. Anthony

Question 27

What did the 19
th
Amendment do?

Answer 27

Gave Women the Right to Vote