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US History 111
Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 strove to? | support women's rights |
| Which religion began in the 1830s? | Mormon |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson became most associated with? | transcendentalism |
| Emerson and Thoreau felt America? | was too materialistic and unequal |
| The Compromise of 1850 did what? | admitted California as a free state |
| The Free Soil party of 1848 wanted to? | exclude slavery from the West |
| The leading European-American male to advocate the abolition of slavery in the 1830s was? | William Garrison |
| The slave that ran away from bondage and later edited the "North Star" was? | Frederick Douglas |
| The leading preacher of the Second Great Awakening in the 1830s was? | Charles Finney |
| The leader in educational reform in the 1840s was? | Horace Mann |
| The American Colonization Society sought to? | free and then send former slaves to Africa |
| The leading conductor of the Underground Railroad was? | Harriet Tubman |
| The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| The slave who led a famous rebellion in 1831 that killed sixty European-Americans was? | Nat Turner |
| The man who served as president for one day was? | David Atchison |
| Who founded a fort at the end of the California Trail? | Johann Sutter |