Chapter 15 Study Guide Flashcards
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopais
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 meetings
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 he mentally ill
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
The legend of sleepy hallow
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
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 Loyd
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Fredrick 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?
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 chose 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?
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
Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of Independence Natural Rights.
Constitution:We The people
Declaration of Independence Natural Rights:We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
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
