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US History, CH12
Age of Reform
Question | Answer |
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Name the religious movement that had a big impact on reform. | Second Great Awakening |
What is the difference between temperance and prohibition? | Temperance dealt with moderation in booze intake. Prohibition was getting rid of it all together. |
Who was Horace Mann? | Leader of education reform |
Who was Dorothea Dix? | Leader in the prison reform movement. |
Describe what is meant by a Utopian Community. | Communities that tried to create perfect societies. |
What would an abolitionist want to get rid of? | Slavery |
What was Liberia? | Colony in Africa where freed slaves could migrate to. By 1830, however, only 1,400 had done so. It was deemed unsuccessful. |
Who founded the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator?" | William Lloyd Garrison |
Why was Frederick Douglass famous? Name some of his accomplishments. | Fugitive slave. Taught himself how to read and write. Important abolitionist speaker, writer, and leader. Founded The North Star. |
What was the Underground Railroad? | System to help free slaves |
Who was known as the "Black Moses?" | Harriet Tubman |
What was a "station" in the Underground Railroad? | A safe stopping point on the journey to freedom. |
Why would some northerners oppose abolition? | Their dependence on cotton produced by slave labor or bigotry. |
What document was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after? | The Declaration of Independence |
What movement was most related to the Seneca Falls Convention? | Women's Rights Movement |
When would women gain the right to vote in America? | 19th Amendment, 1920 |
Who was the author of, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?" | Washington Irving |
This artistic movement's goal was to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotion rather than reason. What was it called? | Transcendentalism |
Who wrote, "Moby-Dick?" | Herman Melville |
What was the first college for women in the US called? | Mount Holyoke |
What is meant by Women's Suffrage? | Women being able to vote. |
What was the first state to ban slavery in their constitution? | Ohio |
Explain the doctrine of free will. | People's actions determined their salvation. |
What is a revival? | A huge outdoor religious meeting. |
Explain Jacksonian Democracy. | The expansion of democracy in the Age of Jackson that will encourage reform. |