Chapter 15 Flashcards
(26 cards)
What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?
Utopias
What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s?
2nd Great Awakening
How did the 2nd Great Awakening begin?
Idk
What does temperance mean?
Self Restraint
What was the first school for the hearing impaired?
Idk
What did Dorothea Dix do?
Idk
What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?
Idk
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?
Idk
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?
Isi
Who was the most well known abolitionist?
Idk
What was the name of the newspaper that Frederick Douglass edited?
The North Star
What did Frederick Douglass believe destroyed America’s ideals of freedom?
Idk
What did Frederick Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?
Pay for his freedom
Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?
Sojourner Truth
Where was Sojourner Truth born?
New York
Why did Truth choose her new name?
To show she wanted to show the 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 the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Where was the first women’s rights convention?
Seneca Falls, New York
What was the most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Suffrage
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott both fight for?
To free the slaves and the right to vote
Who was the Quaker that helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards
women’s suffrage?
Lucrieta Mott
