Chapter 6 Exam Flashcards
(21 cards)
Which movement was started at the Seneca Falls Convention?
women’s right to vote
What term was used to describe the immediate freeing of all slaves?
abolition
Who traveled the country giving speeches about women’s rights?
Susan B. Anthony
What was the Trail of Tears?
during Jackson’s presidency, the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes was forced from Georgia to modern-day Oklahoma
What did Henry David Thoreau encourage to protest slavery?
civil disobedience
Which reformer made it so that insanity was treated as an illness, not a crime?
Dorothea Dix
What rewarded political efforts with jobs?
Spoils System
Who started Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first college for women?
Mary Lyon
Who was a freed slave, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist
Sojourner Truth
What was the temperance groups’ most serious social problem of the 1800s?
alcohol abuse
Who was the “conductor” of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who was the white abolitionist who published the Liberator, the most anti-slavery newspaper?
William Lloyd Garrison
Whose efforts made it so that teachers in Massachusetts were more prepared when they began their careers?
Horace Mann
Which idea led to the fear that Americans would lose their jobs to immigrants, so they became hostile towards people coming to the US?
nativism
What did the Second Great Awakening do?
stressed that self-improvement led to a wish to improve the whole society and that a person’s good deeds could save their soul
Who fought against traditional roles for women?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who wrote the Scarlet Letter?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who was a former slave and editor of the North Star?
Frederick Douglass
What was the secret network that allowed slaves to escape to Canada?
the Underground Railroad
Who set up a school for African American girls?
Prudence Crandell
