Chapter 15-The Spirit Of Reform

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Utopias

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The Second Great Awakening

Question 3

How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?

Answer 3

Began with frontier camp meetings called revivals

Question 4

What does temperance mean?

Answer 4

Drinking little or no alcohol…Movement began by religious leaders after 2nd GA

Question 5

What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

Answer 5

Gallaudet University

Question 6

What did Dorothea Dix do?

Answer 6

Reformed care for the mentally ill

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Washington Irving was America’s first internationally famous author with his story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe

Question 9

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Answer 9

Harriet Beacher Stowe

Question 10

Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

Answer 10

Abolitionists

Question 11

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

Answer 11

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 12

Who was the most well known abolitionist?

Answer 12

Fredrick Douglas

Question 13

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

Answer 13

The “North Star”

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The injustice of slavery destroyed America’s ideals of freedom

Question 15

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

Answer 15

In 1847, friends helped him purchase his freedom from his original slave owner

Question 16

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

Answer 16

Sojourner Truth

Question 17

Where was Sojourner Truth born?

Answer 17

She was born as a slave in New York

Question 18

Why did Truth choose her new name?

Answer 18

She chose her name because she said “I will walk in the light of God’s truth”

Question 19

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

Answer 19

The Underground Railroad

Question 20

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Answer 20

Harriet Tubman

Question 21

Where was the first women’s rights convention?

Answer 21

Seneca Falls, New York

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Women’s suffrage-The right to vote

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Women’s Suffrage

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Lucretia Mott

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Constitution-“We the people…”

Declaration- “We find 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 19th Amendment do?

Answer 27

In 1920, the 19th Amendment would be ratified which made women’s suffrage a reality in every state of the US