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apush quiz 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bartolome De Las Casas | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated for the humane treatment of Native Americans; opposed the encomienda system Significance: Helped spark early debates over indigenous rights; influenced Spanish reforms |
| Roger Williams | Ideas/Beliefs: Supported religious freedom and separation of church and state Significance: Founded Rhode Island as a haven for religious dissenters |
| Anne Hutchinson | Ideas/Beliefs: Challenged Puritan authority by advocating for personal revelation Significance: Banished from Massachusetts; promoted ideas of religious liberty and women’s roles |
| King Philip / Metacom | Ideas/Beliefs: Resisted English colonization and land seizure Significance: Led King Philip’s War (1675–76); major Native resistance to English settlers |
| George Whitefield | Ideas/Beliefs: Evangelical preacher during the First Great Awakening Significance: Inspired emotional religious revivals and helped spread evangelicalism in colonies |
| Tecumseh | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated for Native unity to resist U.S. expansion Significance: Formed Native confederacy; died during War of 1812 fighting U.S. forces |
| Charles G. Finney | Ideas/Beliefs: Revivalist preacher in the Second Great Awakening Significance: Promoted social reform through religion (abolition, temperance) |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Ideas/Beliefs: Transcendentalist who emphasized self-reliance and nature Significance: Influenced American identity and reform movements |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Ideas/Beliefs: Radical abolitionist; published The Liberator Significance: Called for immediate emancipation; sparked abolition movement |
| The Grimke Sisters | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated abolition and women’s rights Significance: Among first women to speak publicly on slavery and gender equality |
| Frederick Douglass | Ideas/Beliefs: Escaped slave; advocated for abolition, equality, and civil rights Significance: Influential orator and writer; advised Lincoln; published The North Star |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Ideas/Beliefs: Early women’s rights activist; co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention Significance: Helped write the Declaration of Sentiments; foundational figure in women’s suffrage movement |
| Susan B. Anthony | Ideas/Beliefs: Suffragist and reformer; fought for women’s voting rights Significance: Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association; later honored on U.S. coinage |
| Sitting Bull | Ideas/Beliefs: Lakota leader who resisted U.S. westward expansion Significance: Victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876); symbol of Native resistance |
| Jane Addams | Ideas/Beliefs: Promoted social reform through settlement houses and education Significance: Founded Hull House; pioneered social work and won Nobel Peace Prize |
| John Muir | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocate for wilderness preservation and national parks Significance: Influenced the creation of Yosemite National Park; co-founded the Sierra Club |
| Mary Lease | Ideas/Beliefs: Populist speaker who supported farmers and anti-corporate policies Significance: Symbol of agrarian activism; urged farmers to “raise less corn and more hell” |
| Henry Grady | Ideas/Beliefs: Promoted the idea of a "New South" with industrial development Significance: Influenced Southern leaders to support economic modernization post-Civil War |
| Booker T. Washington | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated vocational education and accommodation to segregation Significance: Founded Tuskegee Institute; believed economic success would bring racial equality |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Ideas/Beliefs: Demanded immediate civil rights and higher education for Black Americans Significance: Co-founded the NAACP; opposed Washington’s gradualist approach |
| Marcus Garvey | Ideas/Beliefs: Black nationalist; promoted racial pride and Pan-Africanism Significance: Founded the UNIA; inspired future Black pride movements |
| Ida B. Wells | Ideas/Beliefs: Journalist and activist against lynching and racial injustice Significance: Documented lynching; co-founded the NAACP; early civil rights pioneer |
| Frederick W. Taylor | Ideas/Beliefs: Developed scientific management to improve industrial efficiency Significance: Revolutionized factory labor; influenced the rise of assembly line production |
| Alice Paul | Ideas/Beliefs: Radical suffragist who supported direct action and a federal amendment Significance: Led hunger strikes; major force behind the 19th Amendment |
| Margaret Sanger | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated for birth control and women’s reproductive rights Significance: Opened first birth control clinic; founded what became Planned Parenthood |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Was FDR’s right hand “man” and helped advance the New Deal Defined the role of the first lady for generations |
| Joseph McCarthy | Ideas/Beliefs: Claimed that communists were infiltrating the U.S. government Significance: Led the “Red Scare” of the 1950s; fueled anti-communist paranoia |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated for nonviolent civil disobedience to achieve racial equality Significance: Leader of the Civil Rights Movement; played a key role in desegregation and voting rights |
| Malcolm X | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated for Black pride, self-defense, and Pan-Africanism Significance: Contrasted with MLK’s nonviolence; emphasized Black empowerment and self-reliance |
| Stokely Carmichael | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocated for “Black Power” and self-defense in the fight for civil rights Significance: Leader of SNCC; a shift toward more radical approaches to fighting racial inequality |
| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS/New Left) | Ideas: Advocated for political and social reform, anti-Vietnam War activism Significance: Central to the 1960s counterculture movement and protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam Impact: major role in the civil rights movement and anti Vietnam War |
| Cesar Chavez | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocate for the rights of farmworkers, including labor rights and better working conditions Significance: Founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) and led boycotts Impact: Helped secure labor contracts and working conditions |
| Phyllis Schlafly | Ideas/Beliefs: Strong opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment and feminism Significance: Led the campaign to stop the passage of the ERA in the 1970s Impact: key role in shaping conservative women’s political views and opposition to the feminist movement |
| Jerry Falwell | Ideas/Beliefs: Advocate for the Religious Right and traditional family values Significance: Founder of the Moral Majority, a key political force in the 1980s Impact: Helped elect Ronald Reagan and push conservative social policies in U.S. politics |