Reforming American Society - Chapter 8

Question 1

Widespread spiritual movement

Answer 1

Second Great Awakening

Question 2

A religious gathering that relied on emotional sermons to awaken religious feelings

Answer 2

Revival

Question 3

An important preacher in the revivalist movement

Answer 3

Charles Grandison Finney

Question 4

Leading transcendental philosopher

Answer 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 5

Philosophy that emphasized the truth to be found in nature and intuition

Answer 5

Transcendentalism

Question 6

Author of Walden who practiced ideas of transcendentalism

Answer 6

Henry David Thoreau

Question 7

The form of protest that calls on people to disobey unjust laws

Answer 7

Civil disobedience

Question 8

Experimental communities designed to be perfect societies

Answer 8

Utopian Communities

Question 9

Reformer who worked for improved treatment of the mentally ill

Answer 9

Dorothea Dix

Question 10

Movement to outlaw slavery

Answer 10

Abolition

Question 11

Abolitionist leader

Answer 11

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 12

The freeing of slaves

Answer 12

Emancipation

Question 13

A free African American who urged blacks to take their freedom by force

Answer 13

David Walker

Question 14

Escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader

Answer 14

Frederick Douglass

Question 15

Leader of a violent salve rebellion

Answer 15

Nat Turner

Question 16

Pre-Civil War

Answer 16

Antebellum

Question 17

A rule limiting debate on an issue

Answer 17

Gag rule

Question 18

Social customs that restricted women to caring for the house

Answer 18

Cult of domesticity

Question 19

Leader in the abolitionist movement

Answer 19

Sarah and Angelina Grimké

Question 20

Movement to ban the drinking of alcohol

Answer 20

Temperance movement

Question 21

Leader in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements

Answer 21

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 22

Leader in the abolitionist and women;s rights movements

Answer 22

Lucretia Mott

Question 23

Convention held in 1848 to argue for women’s rights

Answer 23

Seneca Falls convention

Question 24

Former slave who became an abolitionist and women;s rights activists

Answer 24

Sojourner Truth

Question 25

System in which manufacturers provided the materials for goods to be produced at home

Answer 25

Cottage industry

Question 26

A skilled artisan who owned a business and employed others

Answer 26

Master

Question 27

Skilled worker employed by a master

Answer 27

Journeyman

Question 28

A worker learning a trade or craft, usually under the supervision of a master

Answer 28

Apprentice

Question 29

Work stoppages by workers

Answer 29

Strike

Question 30

Early national workers’ organization

Answer 30

National Trades’ Union