Chapter 6 Test Flashcards
what movement was started at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s Right to Vote
what was the immediate freeing of all slaves?
abolition
who traveled the country giving speeches about women’s rights?
Susan B. Anthony
during Andrew Jackson’s presidency, the Cherokee tribe was forced West from Georgia to modern day Oklahoma on a journey called…
Trail of Tears
what did Henry David Thoreau encourage to protest slavery?
civil disobedience
because of the efforts of this reformer, insanity was treated as an illness, not a crime.
Dorothea Dix
what was the system of rewarding political supporters with government jobs?
spoils system
who started Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first college for women?
Mary Lyon
who was a freed slave, abolitionist, and a women’s rights activist?
Sojourner Truth
temperance groups viewed this as the most serious social problem of the 1800s.
alcohol abuse
who was a “conductor” on the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
who was a white abolitionist who published the Liberator, the most influential anti-slavery newspaper?
William Lloyd Garrison
because of the efforts of this reformer, teachers in Massachusetts were better prepared when they began their careers.
Horace Mann
this idea led some Americans to fear losing their jobs to immigrants and they became hostile to people coming the United States.
Nativism
what stressed the idea that self-improvement led to a wish to improve the whole society and that a person’s good deeds could save their soul?
Second Great Awakening
