Chapter 15

Question 1

What are communities based on a vision of a perfect society?

Answer 1

utopias

Question 2

What was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800’s

Answer 2

Second great awakening

Question 3

How did the Second Great Awakening begin?

Answer 3

Frontier camp meetings called revivals

Question 4

What does temperance mean?

Answer 4

Drinking little or no alcohol

Question 5

What was the first school for the hearing impaired?

Answer 5

Gallaudet University

Question 6

What did Dorothea Dix do?

Answer 6

Reformed care for the mentally ill

Question 7

What was Washington Irving famous for being and what did he write?

Answer 7

Americas first internationally famous author

The legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question 8

What novel explored the issue of slavery and was the best selling novel of the 19th century?

Answer 8

Uncle Toms cabin

Question 9

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s cabin?

Answer 9

Harriet Beecher

Question 10

Who were reformers who wanted to abolish slavery?

Answer 10

Abolitionist

Question 11

Who was thirst well known abolitionist?

Answer 11

Fredrick Douglas

Question 12

What was the name of the newspaper that Douglas edited?

Answer 12

North Star

Question 13

What did Douglas believed destroyed Americas idea of freedom?

Answer 13

Injustice of slavery

Question 14

What did Douglas do with help of friends in 1847?

Answer 14

Purchased his freedom

Question 15

Who worked for women’s rights as an abolitionist?

Answer 15

Sonjourner Truth

Question 16

Where was Sonjourner Truth born?

Answer 16

New York

Question 17

Why did Truth choose her name

Answer 17

Because she said “ I will wake in the light of gods truth”

Question 18

What was a network of escape routes out of the south for enslaved ppl

Answer 18

The Underground Railroad

Question 19

Where was the first women’s rights convention

Answer 19

The Seneca falls

Question 20

What was the first controversial issue at the Seneca falls convention

Answer 20

Women’s suffrage

Question 21

What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott fight for

Answer 21

Right to vote

Question 22

Who was the Quaker who helped runaway slaves in addition to working towards women’s suffrage

Answer 22

Lucretia Mott

Question 23

Who called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation

Answer 23

Susan b

Question 24

What did the 19 amendment do

Answer 24

Made women’s suffrage a reality in every state