Chapter 15 Flashcards
(29 cards)
What was the village created by a utopian believer?
New Harmony, Indiana
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopia
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
Second Great Awakening
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Frontier Camp meetings called revivals
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?
Transcendentalists
What did transcendentalists stress?
The relationship between humans and nature and the human conscience
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
The first Internationally famous author w/ The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by 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 Douglass
How did he (Fredrick Douglass) learn how to read and write?
Taught himself
What was the name of the newspaper that abolitionist edited?
The North Star
What did Frederick Douglas believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
The injustice of 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? (Sojourner Truth)
New York (as a slave)
Why did she choose her new name?
“I will walk in the light of God’s Truth
What was a network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people?
The Underground Railroad
Who was the most famous conductor of that system? (Underground Railroad)
Harriet Tubman
