Chapter 15 Vocabulary

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

Make changes in order to improve

Question 2

Revival

Answer 2

Religious meeting

Question 3

Temperance

Answer 3

Drinking little or no alcohol

Question 4

Utopia

Answer 4

A community based on a vision of the perfect society

Question 5

Normal School

Answer 5

State-supported school for training high school graduates to become teachers

Question 6

Civil Disobedience

Answer 6

Refusing to obey laws considered unjust

Question 7

Abolitionist

Answer 7

A person who sought the end of slavery in the United States in the early 1900s

Question 8

Quakers

Answer 8

a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox circa 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles

Question 9

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 9

Abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer; founded the abolition newspaper The North Star

Question 10

Sojourner Truth

Answer 10

She was born a slave but was later freed and became a speaker for abolition and women’s suffrage; she traveled the North and spoke about her experiences in slavery

Question 11

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 11

Journalist and reformer who published the anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator

Question 12

Suffrage

Answer 12

The right to vote