Chapter 15 Flashcards
(29 cards)
What was the village created by a utopian believer?
New harmony
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
The second great awakening
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Revivals
What does temperance mean?
Drinking little or no alcohol
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Gallaudet
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Made care for ether mentally insane
What were writers Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Transcendent’s
What did transcendentalists stress?
The relationship of man and nature
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
An author , sleepy
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
Uncle toms cabin
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 carrison
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
How did he learn how to read and write?
He taught himself
What was the name of the newspaper that abolitionist edited?
North Star
What did Frederick Douglas believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
Slavery
What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
Bought his freedom
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sojourner truth
Where was she born?
New York
Why did she choose her new name?
Because she “will walk in in the light of God’s truth
What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
Underground Railroad
Who was the most famous conductor of that system?
Harriet Tubman
