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ch13 out of many
chapter 13 out of many
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Charlotte Woodward | 19~year old glove maker, traveled to Seneca Falls to attend convention |
| Declaration of Sentiments | resolutions passes at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 calling for full female equality, including the right to vote. |
| Oberlin College and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary | only two colleges to admit women |
| Quaker Lucretia Mott | exclaimed when Elizabeth Cady Stanton proposed the voting rights measure. |
| Wesleyan Methodist Society | held one third of reformers who attended the women’s rights convention |
| Potato Famine | in Ireland was responsible for the enormous surge in immigration |
| Carl Schurz | German who became a general in the Union Army, senator from Missouri, and secretary of the interior in the administration of Ruterhford B. Hayes |
| Bremen and Le Havre | major ports of immigration of Germans and also were tobacco and cotton were imported from U.S. |
| Central Pacific Railroad | was built by 90 percent of Chinese workers |
| Astor Place Riot of 1849 | began as a theater riot by Irish immigrants and others against a British actor, but escalated into a pitched battle between the mod and the militia that left 22 dead |
| “Bowery” | here working class youth found Saturday night amusement and provided it for themselves with outrageous behavior and clothing |
| “Instant” cities | Utica, New York transformed by the opening of the Erie Canal |
| Water system | created in 1801 in Philadelphia because of major disease outbreaks but had to be paid for |
| Gramercy Park | developed in 1831 by a speculator who transformed what had been Gramercy Farm into a park for purchasers of the surrounding lot |
| Five Points | the worst New York slum in the nineteenth century. |
| Walt Whitman | Democratic party activist and poet. Wrote the Leaves of Grass, a book of free~verse poems published in 1855 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | found inspiration for his gothic horror stories in American crimes |
| Frederick Douglass | famed African American abolitionist was denied admission to a zoo |
| African Methodist Episcopal (AME) | the major community organization with black Baptists |
| Workingmen’s Party | founded in Philadelphia in 1827, the “workies” campaigned for the 10 hour day and the preservation of the small artisanal shop |
| General Trades Union (GTU) | group of nine different craft groups, helped organize strikes and encouraged formation of unions |
| Judge Ogden Edwards | pronounced strikers guilty of conspiracy and declared unions un~American. |
| Tammany Society | a fraternal organization of artisans begun in the 1780s that evolved into a key organization of the new mass politics in NYC |
| Charles G. Finney | preached a doctrine of “perfectionism” |
| Lyman Beecher | joined other ministers in forming a General Union for Promoting the Observance of the Christian Sabbath |
| Sabbatarianism | reform movement that aimed to prevent business on Sundays. |
| Horace Mann | secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education |
| Catharine Beecher | the great champion of teacher training for women |
| American Society for the Promotion of Temperance | largest reform organization of its time dedicated to ending the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages |
| Temperance | reform movement originating in the 1820s that sought to eliminate the consumption of alcohol. |
| Female Moral Reform Society | antiprostitution group founded by evangelical women in NY in 1834 |
| Dorothea Dix | female evangelist who spearheaded the asylum movement |
| Seneca Fall convention | the first convention for women’s equality in legal rights help in upstate NY in 1848 |
| Millerites | believed that the Second Coming of Christ would occur on October 22, 1843. revising their expectations, they formed the core of the Seventh~day Adventist |
| Shakers | the followers of Mother Ann Lee, who preached a religion of strict celibacy and communal living |
| Oneida Community | a utopian community that became notorious for its sexual freedom which was founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 |
| New Harmony Indian | founded by the famous Scottish industrialist Robert Owen in 1825, it was to be a manufacturing community without poverty and unemployment |
| Phalanxes | huge communal buildings structured on the socialist theories of the French thinker Charles Fourier. |
| Louisa May Alcott | wrote Little Women |
| Joseph Smith | founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter~Day saints, based on the teachings of the Book of Mormon, which he claimed to have received from an angel in a vision |
| American Colonization Society | an organization, founded in 1817 by antislavery reformers, that called for gradual emancipation and the removal of freed blacks to Africa |
| Freedom’s Journal | first African American newspaper founded in 1827 by John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish |
| David Walker | a free African American in Boston wrote a widely distributed pamphlet, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, that encourage slave rebellion |
| William Lloyd Garrison | headed the third and best known group of antislavery reformers, began publishing his own paper, the Liberator |
| Theodore Weld | an evangelical minister who joined Garrison in 1833 in forming the American Anti~Slavery Society. Encouraged a group of students at Lane Theological Seminary to form an antislavery society. |
| Oberlin College | most liberal college in the country. |
| Arthur Tappan | abolitionist whose house and store were sacked at the same time. |
| Elijah P. Lovejoy | an antislavery editor who was killed and his press destroyed. |
| “Gag Rule” | passed in 1836 it prohibited discussion of antislavery petitions |
| John Quincy Adams | denounced gag rule as a violation of the constitutions. Was also a key figure in the abolitionists’ one undoubted victory, the fight to free 53 slaves on the Spanish ship Amistad and return them to Africa |
| Lewis Tappan | prominent abolitionists who financed the legal fight of the Amistad ship in which Adams won |
| Liberty Party | the first antislavery political party, formed in 1840. choose James G. Birney as president |
| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | members of a prominent SC slave~holding family, who rejected slavery out of religious conviction and moved north to join a Quaker community |
| Angelina Grimke | became the first woman to address a meeting of the Massachusetts state legislature |
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