Chapter 8 Vocabulary

Question 1

a 19th-century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized, along with the need for personal and social improvement

Answer 1

Second Great Awakening

Question 2

the refusal to obey those laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a change in governmental policy

Answer 2

civil disobedience

Question 3

author of The Liberator and gave speeches and help funded anti-slavery societies.

Answer 3

William Loyd Garrison

Question 4

a belief that married women should restrict their activities to their home and family

Answer 4

cult of domesticity

Question 5

an organized effort to prevent the drinking of alcoholic beverages

Answer 5

Temperance Movement

Question 6

a Quaker reformer and minister, an abolitionist and women’s rights activist, and co-founder of the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention

Answer 6

Lucretia Mott

Question 7

an African-American abolitionist who was known for giving speeches about slavery and rights

Answer 7

Sojourner Truth

Question 8

a Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion that resulted in the death of 55 whites, mostly women and children

Answer 8

Nat Turner

Question 9

Boston abolitionist who wrote and published a pamphlet entitled “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”

Answer 9

David Walker

Question 10

she played an instrumental role in the funding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill

Answer 10

Dorothea Dix

Question 11

an experimental community designed to be a perfect society, in which its members could live together in harmony

Answer 11

Utopian communities

Question 12

a philosophical and literary movement of the 1800s that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and personal emotion and imagination

Answer 12

Transcendentalism

Question 13

a women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848

Answer 13

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 14

a system of production in which manufacturers provide the materials for goods to be produced in the home

Answer 14

Cottage Industry

Question 15

an important contributor to the American literary and philosophical movement known as the New England transcendentalism

Answer 15

Henry David Thoreau

Question 16

a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author, and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War

Answer 16

Frederick Douglass

Question 17

the freeing of slaves

Answer 17

emancipation

Question 18

a rule limiting or preventing debate on an issue

Answer 18

Gag rule

Question 19

belonging to the period before the Civil War

Answer 19

Antebellum

Question 20

two sisters who became the first women to speak in front of a state legislature as representatives of the American Anti-Slavery Society. They also became active writes, teachers, and speakers for women’s rights

Answer 20

Grimke Sisters