Unit 8.1 Reforming American Society vocab

Question 1

second great awakening

Answer 1

religious revival movement in the first half of the 1800s

Question 2

Revivalist

Answer 2

preacher who works to renew the importance of religion in American liffe

Question 3

Mormon

Answer 3

member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints, which was organized in 1830 by Joseph Smith

Question 4

Utopian Community

Answer 4

imaginary place where everything is perfect

Question 5

Transcendentalist

Answer 5

person who follows the literary and philosophical movement based on finding spiritual reality through nature and consciousness of self

Question 6

Temperance movement

Answer 6

movement aimed stopping alcohol abuse and the problems caused by it

Question 7

Freedman

Answer 7

a person who has been free from slavery

Question 8

Abolition movement

Answer 8

19th century movement that sought an end to slavery

Question 9

gag rule

Answer 9

a rule lasting from 1836 to 1844 that banned debate about slavery in congress

Question 10

suffrage

Answer 10

the right to vote