Where did men and women believe a woman's place was?
Home
100
Where was a women's rights convention held?
Seneca Falls, New York
100
In Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, what did he urge people to do?
Live simply
100
Name two authors that expressed interest in American themes.
Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper
100
Name the republican candidate for governor.
Bruce Rauner.
200
Why was Sojourner Truth a powerful voice for women and slaves?
She was a woman and a former slave.
200
Who wrote the Declaration of Sentiments?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
200
What is civil disobedience?
The idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their consciences demand it.
200
What did the character Natty Bumppo criticize?
Destruction of nature.
200
Who founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869?
Susan B. Anthony
300
Women began to demand right as equal __________.
Citizens
300
What did the Declaration of Sentiments demand?
Full equality for women in every way of life.
300
What were Herman Melville and Nathanial Hawthorne fascinated by?
Psychology and extreme emotions
300
Define transcendentalism.
A movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason.
300
Why is Elizabeth Blackwell so important to the advancement of women?
She was the first women to graduate from an American medical school.
400
Lucretia Mott spent years working on the ___________ movement.
Antislavery
400
Define women's suffrage.
The right for women to vote.
400
Why is Jo March, from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, an important character?
It was one of the first young American heroines to be presented as a believable, imperfect person rather than a shining ideal
400
What did Ralph Waldo Emerson challenge people to do?
Challenged people to use their "inner light" to guide their lives and improve society.
400
Why isn't Karen Lewis running for mayor?
She has a brain tumor.
500
How did Lucretia Mott have more public speaking experience that other women?
She was a Quaker, and Quakers allowed women to have public roles that other religions did not.
500
How are the women's rights movement and women's suffrage different?
Women's rights movement was the organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status for women in American society while the women's suffrage is the right for women to vote.
500
Why is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Song of Hiawatha" important?
It was one of the first works to honor Native Americans
500
Name three things transcendentalists urged people to do.
Urged people to live simply, seek beauty, goodness and truth within their own souls
500
Who won the Grammy for Best Album at the ceremony held in 2014?