Chapter15 Flashcards
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Began with frontier camp meetings called revivals.
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little to no alcohol.
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Gallaudet University
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Reformes care for the mentally ill .
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
America’s first internationally famous author with his story , The Legend of Sleepy Hollow .
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19
century?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionists
Who was the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete
emancipation of slaves?
William Lloyd
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
Second great awakening
What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?
North Star
What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
Believed that the injustice of slavery destroyed America’s ideals of freedom .
What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
Friends helped him purchase his freedom from his original slaveholder.
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sojouner Truth
Where was Sojourner Truth born?
Born as a slave in New York.
Why did Truth choose her new name?
Because she said she will walk in the light of God’s truth.
What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
The underground railroad
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls, New York
What was the most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Over women’s suffrage
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both fight for?
Both publicly fought for women’s suffrage.
Who was the Quaker that helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards
women’s suffrage?
Lucretia Mott
Know the differences between the Constitution preamble and Declaration of
Independence Natural Rights.
Constitution=we the people , In order to form a more perfect union . The constitution created a government .
Declaration of independence = we hold these truths , didnt create a government only declared independece
Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation?
Susan B. Anthony
What did the 19th
Amendment do?
Made women’s suffrage a reality in every state
