Chapter 14 Flashcards
The most famous conductor in the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Helped establish public education
Horace Mann
Fought for women’s education and daughter of very famous minister
Catherine Beecher
Ex-Slave who published The North Star and was a great public speaker
Frederick Douglas
1 of the most important leaders in the 2nd Great Awakening who challenged traditional Protestant beliefs by saying each individual is responsible for his or her actions
Charles G. Finney
Helped establish some of the 1st institutions for the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
Started the 1st abolitionist newspaper called the liberator
William Garrison
Southern woman who, along with her sister, persuaded other females to speak up against slavery
Sarah Grimke
Assisted people with poor hearing
Thomas Gallaudet
A women’s rights leader who fought for changes in the way women lived
Susan B. Anthony
What group wanted to exclude Catholics &a foreigners from public office?
The know nothing party
Tenements were
Dirty, overcrowded, and poorly built
Which of the following statements about large cities isn’t the North is NOT true?
Most cities had public sewage systems to eliminate waste
Many Leander’s of reform movements were
Middle class women
The abolitionist goal of emancipation was very difficult to achieve because of
Racism,fear and the Souths economic dependence on slavery
