Chapter 6 Review Flashcards
What term was used to describe the immediate freeing of all slaves?
Abolition
What movement started at the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women’s Right to Vote
What women traveled the country giving speeches about women’s rights?
Susan B. Anthony
Where was the Cherokee tribe forced to go to during Andrew Jackson’s presidency?
Trail of Tears
What did Henry David Thoreau encourage to protest slavery?
Civil Disobedience
After the efforts of what reformer caused insanity to be treated as an illness and not a crime?
Dorothea Dix
What political system rewarded supporters with government jobs?
Spoils System
Who started Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first college for women?
Mary Lyon
Who was a freed slave, an albolitionist, and a women’s rights activist?
Sojourner Truth
What did temperance groups view as the most serious social problem of the 1800s?
Alcohol Abuse
Who was a “conductor” of the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who was a white abolitionist who published the Liberator, the most influential anti-slavery newspaper?
William Llyod Garrison
What reformer cause Massachusetts teachers to be better prepared when they began their careers?
Horace Mann
What idea led to Americans fear to losing their jobs to immigrants and they became hostile of people coming into the United States?
Nativism
What stressed the idea that self-improvement led to improving a whole society?
Second Great Awaking
