A community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers.
What is utopia?
100
The wave of religious fervor that stirred the nation in the early 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
The leader of educational reform whose efforts partly helped in the founding of the nation's first state-supported normal school in Massachusetts in 1839.
Who was Horace Mann?
100
Name the three leading transcendentalists.
Who were Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau?
100
Parents often kept their daughters home from school because they believed this was a women's role in society.
What is the role of wife and mother?
200
A series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions.
What is revival?
200
The Connecticut minister who crusaded against the use of alcohol and wanted to protect society against "rum-selling, tippling folk, infidels, and ruff-scruff."
Who was Lyman Beecher?
200
In 1833, the first college to admit both women and African-Americans to the student body.
What is Oberlin College of Ohio?
200
In 1846, Thoreau went to jail because he refused to do this.
What is pay a tax to support the Mexican War?
200
Name two utopian communities that lasted more than a few years.
What are the Shakers and the Mormons?
300
The use of little or no alcoholic drink.
What is temperance?
300
In 1851, Maine passed a law banning this.
What is the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages?
300
Made it her life's work to educate the public as to the poor conditions for both the mentally ill and for prisoners.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
300
Name three transcendentalist poets.
Who were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson?
300
In 1837, it became the first permanent women's college in America.
What is Mount Holyoke?
400
A two-year school for training high school graduates as teachers.
What is a normal school?
400
Describe what one might do at a revival. (4 things)
What is pray, sing, weep, and shout?
400
The teaching reform Thomas Gallaudet developed.
What is develop a method to educate people who were hearing impaired?
400
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this best selling novel in mid-1800s.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
Refusing to obey laws one considers unjust.
What is civil disobedience?
500
Any group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience.
What is transcendentalist?
500
The Indiana village established by Robert Owen that was dedicated to the cooperation rather than competition among its members.
What was New Harmony?
500
He developed books with large raised letters that people with sight impairments could "read" with their fingers.
Who was Dr. Samuel Gridley?
500
The authors of the most popular fiction in the 1800s.
What were women?
500
Reformers used these 3 things to warn people of the dangers of liquor.
What were lectures, pamphlets, and revival style rallies?