Chapter 15 Study Guide Flashcards
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopia
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 meeting 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?
America’s first internationally famous author with his story, Sleepy Hollow
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th
century?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 Douglass
What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?
North Star
What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
Slavery
What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
To purchase his freedom for his original slaveholder
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?
Because 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?
The Underground Railroad
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls, New York
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
Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?
Susan B. Anthony
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Made women’s suffrage a reality in every state
Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of
Independence Natural Rights
Preamble tells why Congress drew up the Declaration of Independence.
Natural Rights tells the three laws that everyone gets
