history midterm exam (age of reform)

Question 0

Transcendentalist writer that focused on self-reliance; wrote The American Scholar

Answer 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 1

Famous preacher and leader of the Second Great Awakening; desired religious conversions

Answer 1

Charles C Finney

Question 2

Transcendentalist writer that wrote On the Duty of Civil Disobedience and Walden

Answer 2

Henry David Thoreau

Question 3

Creator of the Mormon religion or Church of Latter-Day Saints but was murdered

Answer 3

Joseph Smith

Question 4

Second prominent leader of the Mormon religion; led followers to Utah

Answer 4

Brigham Young

Question 5

Female advocate for mental health and prison reform

Answer 5

Dorothea Dix

Question 6

Prominent abolitionist that created a popular anti-slavery publication; had a relationship with Douglass

Answer 6

William Loyd Garrison

Question 7

Former slave that became a fugitive but spoke up for the cause of abolition despite the risks

Answer 7

Frederick Douglass

Question 8

Female abolitionist from the South who was concerned about her family members’ souls after death

Answer 8

Angelina Grimke

Question 9

Slave gifted preacher that saw a “sign” and decided to lead a rebellion that killed many white people

Answer 9

Nat Turner

Question 10

Advocate for temperance who often attested to the evils of alcohol

Answer 10

Mary Vaughan

Question 11

Former slave that began to travel throughout the country preaching; she argued for abolition

Answer 11

Sojourner Truth

Question 12

Second great awakening

Answer 12

• Religious awakening that focused on preaching and revivalism
• inspired social reform
• Charles Finney was the leader
• Methodist and baptist church grow in number from this

Question 13

Transcendentalism

Answer 13

• Movement that focused on personal/private religious experiences
• focused on nature & emotion
• Ralph Emerson wrote American scholar who was a huge transcendentalist
• Henry Thoreau wrote on the duty of civil disobedience and Walden and he was also a transcendentalist writer

Question 14

Abolitionist movement

Answer 14

• Reform movement that focused on the immediate end of the
  of slavery
• major abolitionist were Stanton, Mott, and Sojourner truth
• truth was a former slave who traveled around the world preaching for abolition
• another huge factor in the abolitionist movement was William garrison who wrote a famous anti- slavery publication called the liberator

Question 15

Cult of domesticity

Answer 15

• in early 19th century women’s options were limited.
• after marriage they could only do domestic responsibilities
• examples of responsibilities are housework, child care, and cleaning
• this was considered only proper for women

Question 16

Lowell mills

Answer 16

• Workplaces that employed women and girls
• questionable safety and health hazards
• low pay and long hours of hard work
• young girls worked in these dangerous mill along with pregnant women