Chapter 8 Vocabulary

Question 1

Second Great Awakening

Answer 1

second wave of religious enthusiasm

Question 2

Revivalist

Answer 2

preachers who wanted to revive the role of religion in America

Question 3

Charles Grandison Finney

Answer 3

influential revivalist

Question 4

Joseph Smith

Answer 4

spoke and wrote visions he said directed him to found a new religious group

Question 5

Mormon

Answer 5

Jesus Christ and Latter day saint followers

Question 6

Unitarian

Answer 6

strictly only worshipped Jesus Christ

Question 7

Utopian Community

Answer 7

Aspiring to be perfect communities

Question 8

Transcendentalists

Answer 8

believed in the religion of nature

Question 9

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Answer 9

leading Transcendentalists

Question 10

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 10

another Transcendentalist

Question 11

Public School Movement

Answer 11

system of tax-supported public schools

Question 12

Horace Mann

Answer 12

greatest school reformer

Question 13

Dorothea Dix

Answer 13

mental illness teacher

Question 14

Penitentiary movement

Answer 14

prison reform movement

Question 15

Temperance Movement

Answer 15

effort to end alcohol abuse

Question 16

Neal Dow

Answer 16

mayor of portland, known for lectures on alcohol abuse

Question 17

Freedman

Answer 17

freed slave

Question 18

Nat Turner

Answer 18

slave who lead his people to freedom

Question 19

Abolition movement

Answer 19

reform against slavery

Question 20

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 20

leading abolitionists

Question 21

Frederick Douglas

Answer 21

another slave abolitionist

Question 22

Gag rule

Answer 22

law that prohibited slavery to be discussed in Congresss

Question 23

Matrilineal

Answer 23

families who the inheritence of female names in property

Question 24

Sojourner Truth

Answer 24

abolitionist leaders, former slave

Question 25

Womens Movement

Answer 25

movement working for greater rights and the opporunities for women

Question 26

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 26

abolitionists who thought women should attend mens job meetings

Question 27

Seneca Falls convention

Answer 27

first womens rights convention

Question 28

married womens property act

Answer 28

guranteed many property rights for women