An evangelist who was one of the greatest preachers of all time (spoke in New York City). He also made the "anxious bench" for sinners to pray and was was against slavery and alcohol.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney
100
1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress
What is gag rule
100
A member of the women's right's movement in 1840. She was a mother of seven, and she shocked other feminists by advocating suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca, New York 1848. Stanton read a "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal."
Who is Eizabeth Cady Stanton
100
Manufacturing based in homes rather than in a factory, commonly found before the Industrial Revolution.
What is cottage industry
100
American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
200
A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. The revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans.
What is the Second Great Awakening
200
A former slave who was an abolitionist, gifted with eloquent speech and self-educated. In 1838 he was "discovered" as a great abolitionist to give antislavery speeches.
Who is Frederick Douglass
200
A person who has learned a particular trade or craft but has not become an employer, or master.
What is a journeyman
200
An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption
What is the temperance movement
300
A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences
What is civil disobedience
300
He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. He wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World." It called for a bloody end to white supremacy. He believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt.
Who is David Walker
300
the ideal woman was seen as a tender, self-sacrificing caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband, social customs that restricted women to caring for the house
What is the cult of domesticity
300
A person who works for another in order to learn a trade
What is an apprentice
300
A religious gathering designed to reawaken faith through impassioned preaching
What is a revival
400
A nineteenth-century movement in the Romantic tradition, which held that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and sensory experience.
What is transcendentalism
400
Belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
What is antebellum
400
American abolitionist and feminist. Born into slavery, she escaped in 1827 and became a leading preacher against slavery and for the rights of women., United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women
Who is Sojourner Truth
400
A group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions.
What is a strike
400
A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the care of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix
500
Founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical
What is a utopian community
500
Leader of a slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia. Revolt led to the deaths of 20 whites and 40 blacks and led to the "gag rule' outlawing any discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives
Who is
500
A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized. She and Stanton called the first women's right convention in New York in 1848
Who is Lucretia Mott
500
founded in 1834 by delegates from six cities, and in 1836 printers and cordwainers (makers of high quality shoes and boots) set up their own national craft unions.
What is National Trades' Union
500
Took place in upperstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.