Chapter 15 Vocabulary Terms

Question 1

Transcendentalism

Answer 1

Transcendentalism is a philosophy started in the early 19th century that promotes intuitive, spiritual thinking instead of scientific thinking based on material things.

Question 2

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 2

Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.

Question 3

Second Great Awakening

Answer 3

Marked by a wave of enthusiastic religious revivals, the Second Great Awakening set the stage for equally enthusiastic social reform movements, especially abolitionism and temperance.

Question 4

Horace Mann

Answer 4

Mann started a public education movement called Common School Movement. The movement pushed for better-developed, tax-funded, secular school systems.