Reforming American Society (ch.8)

Question 1

Second Great Awakening

Answer 1

Revivals of the broad religous movement that swept the US after 1790.

Question 2

Abolition

Answer 2

The call to outlaw slavery.

Question 3

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 3

Most radical white abolitionist. Wrote his own newspaper called The Liberator

Question 4

Frederick Douglass

Answer 4

Born into slavery and was taught by the wife of one of his slave owners how to read and write-studied hard because it was his pathway to freedom.

Question 5

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 5

Headed the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.

Question 6

Temperance Movement

Answer 6

The effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol.

Question 7

Cult of domesticity

Answer 7

Women should restrict their activities after marriage to the home and family, because house work and child care were considered the only proper activities for married women.

Question 8

How religion set the stage for the reform movements of the mid-19th century.

Answer 8

Preachers emphasized individual responsibilty for seeking salvation, and insisted that people could improve themselve in society.

Question 9

Key aspects of the Abolition Movement.

Answer 9

Antislavery societies wanted to send the Africans back to Africa becuase they believed that they didnt fit it with the white society. Whites began to side with the African-Americans to help stop this “great sin” of slavery. Blacks began to fight for their freedom instead of waiting for slave owners to end slavery.

Question 10

Key aspects of the Women’s Rights Movement.

Answer 10

Women wanted to earn the same rights as men. They participated in many movements, and soon some men began to join them to fight for their cause.