Chapter 15 Flashcards
What was the village created by a utopian believer?
New harmony India
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
Second great awakening
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Frontier camp meetings call rivals
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little or no alcohol
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Gallaudet university
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Reformed care for the mentally ill
What were writers Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Transcendentalist
What did transcendentalists stress?
Relationship
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
Americas first internationally famous author with the story the legend of sleepy hollow
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
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 garrison
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Fredrick Douglas