SS Chapter 15

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Which statement reflects one goal Sojourner Truth worked toward?

Women should have more rights

Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm started Freedom's Journal, the country's first. . .

African American newspaper

Which statement best describes the period known as the Second Great Awakening?

Americans became more interested in religion.

What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848?

Delegates demanded that women be given the right to vote.

What was a main demand of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions?

Discrimination against women should be ended.

Who was the schoolteacher who helped educate the public about the poor living conditions of the mentally ill?

Dorothea Dix

Which abolitionist was shot and killed by angry whites while escaping his burning newspaper office?

Elijah Lovejoy

Who helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Which argument did anti-abolitionists use?

Enslaved people are well treated.

Which famous African American abolitionist, speaker, and writer escaped from slavery as a runaway?

Frederick Douglass

____ is the most widely known African American abolitionist.

Frederick Douglass

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

Which was the first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if their husband had an alcohol problem?

Indiana

Which is a main idea of transcendentalist thinkers?

Individual conscience is very important.

How did the Troy Female Seminary improve women's education?

It taught subjects such as science.

Which reformer at the Seneca Falls Convention was uncomfortable with the idea of suffrage for women?

Lucretia Mott

Who was the Quaker woman who gave lectures calling for temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition?

Lucretia Mott

What was one of the weaknesses of the American Colonization Society?

Most African Americans did not want to go to Africa.

Mary Lyon modeled her school, ____, on Amherst College

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

Which was the first college in the United States to admit women and African Americans?

Oberlin College of Ohio

In 1830 free African American leaders held an antislavery convention in which city?

Philadelphia

Which of the following arguments did pro-slavery Southerners use against abolitionists?

Slave labor was essential to the South, allowing Southern whites to reach a high level of culture.

What important right did women gain in 1920?

They gained the right to vote.

Which statement is true about both William Lloyd Garrison and Sarah Grimké?

They worked to end slavery.

Who opened Hartford School for the deaf in Connecticut in 1817?

Thomas Gallaudet

Who started the Hartford School for the Deaf?

Thomas Gallaudet

Which publication was a novel about life under slavery?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Which author wrote Leaves of Grass?

Walt Whitman

Maria Mitchell made contributions in which field?

astronomy

Elizabeth Blackwell broke an important barrier for women when she. . .

became a doctor.

Thoreau refused to pay a tax he disagreed with. This is an example of. . .

civil disobedience.

The temperance movement warned people of the . . .

dangers of alcohol.

Which definition best fits the word abolition?

ending slavery

The goal of the American Colonization Society was to . . .

free enslaved African Americans and send them out of the country.

The purpose of the Underground Railroad was to. . .

help enslaved people reach freedom in the North.

Dorothea Dix worked to. . .

improve life for the mentally ill.

How did most African Americans live in the North?

in poverty in the cities

What did the Milwaukee College of Women train students for?

marriage, motherhood, and housekeeping

Susan B. Anthony believed that. . .

men and women should study together.

Who were the students at normal schools?

people becoming teachers

What was the main goal of the temperance reformers?

reduce alcohol drinking

What did the Grimké sisters do?

spoke out against slavery

William Lloyd Garrison influenced the antislavery movement by

starting the American Anti-Slavery Society.

A major subject of transcendentalist literature was. . .

the importance of inner knowledge and individual conscience.

What were people called who stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual conscience?

transcendentalists

Writers Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson were

transcendentalists.

Abolitionists like Lucretia Mott helped organize the. . .

women's rights movement.

Founded by Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke was a school for. . .

women.


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