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APUSH Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sought and got improved treatment for the mentally insane. | Dorthea Dix |
| Pennsylvanian whose songs were the most famous for African Americans especially "Old Folks At Home," better known as "Suwanee River." | Stephen Foster |
| Wrote satrical poetry that criticized social wrongs, such as "Biglow Papers." | James Russell Lowell |
| Leader of the Millerites or Adventists. They gathered in prayerful assemblies to great their Redeemer. | William Miller |
| Wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | Washington Irving |
| Doctor who said that if all medicines were thrown into the sea, the people would be better off and the fish worse because it consisted mostly of alcohol. Wrote "The Last Leaf." | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| A sprightly Quaker whose ire had been aroused when she and her fellow female delegates to the London antislavery convention of 1840 were not recognized. | Lucretia Mott |
| Became known as "The Father of Education." He pushed for free compulsory education and education that strayed from just "dead languages" to more "hands-on" education and the "3 R's." | Horace Mann |
| Wrote his Blueblack Speller and dictionary. His lessons were mixed with grammar and moral lessons. | Noah Webster |
| A mother of seven who had insisted on leaving "obey" out of her marriage ceremony, shocked fellow feminists by going so far as to advocate suffrage for women. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Quaker-reared, a militant lecturer for women's rights, fearlessly exposed herself to rotten garbage and vulgar epithets. She became such a conspicuous advocate of female's rights, progressive women everywhere were called "Suzy B's." | Susan B. Anthony |
| Explored the idea of original sin with works such as "The House of Seven Gambles" and "The Scarlet Letter" where the heroine is condemned to wear a red "A" on her blouse to show her sin of adultery. | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "Lived" self relience. Spent two years living in the woods off nothing but what he could make, grow, or trade for. Wrote "Walden: Or Life in the Woods" and "On the Duty of Civil Obedience." | Henry David Thoreau |
| Wrote Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| The most gifted speaker/preacher and could move the masses during the 2nd Great Awakening. | Charles G. Finney |
| Wrote the McGuffey's Reader that nearly every schoolchild read from. The Reader also contained both English lessons as well as patriotic and moral lessons. | William H. McGuffey |
| In 1830 he claimed to have found golden tablets in NY with the "Book of Mormon" inscribed on them. He thus came up with "Mormon or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." | Joseph Smith |
| A saucy poet who wrote "Leaves of Grass." Encouraged people to live their lives to the fullest and holler out a "barbaric yawp." | Walt Whitman |
| An early naturalist who painted birds with precise details. He is the namesake of todays "Audobon Society" that studies birds. | John J. Audobon |
| Immensely popular poet with "Evangeline," "The Tales of Hiawatha," and "The Courtship of Miles Standish." | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Took over and led the Mormons along the "Mormon Trail" to Utah. | Brigham Young |
| The master showman who had early discovered that "the public likes to be humbugged," joined hands with James A. Bailey in 1881 to stage "The Greatest Show on Earth." | Phineas T. Barnum |
| Founded in Boston, 1826. Local chapters began to emerge that used a variety of methods to discourage drinking. | American Temperance Society |
| Stressed simplicity in their lives and seperated the sexes. This led to them dying off by 1940. Started by Mother Ann Lee. | Shakers |
| Drew followers even farther away from Christianity. Believed God existed in one person, but not in the Holy Trinity. Rejected the divinity of Christ. People were essentially good at heart, people were saved through "good works." | Unitarianism |
| 1830's. It spawned a series of other movements: prison reform, temperance (movement to ban alcohol), and abolition of slavery. | Second Great Awakening |
| Seneca Falls, NY (1848). Launched the modern womens' rights movement. | Women's Rights Convention |
| What Western New York became known as because of the hellfire due of its revival preaching. | Burned-Over District |
| A New England intellectual movement that began to challenge ways of thinking. They said knowledge rises just above the senses. People were thought to reach an inner light and touch the "oversoul." | transendentalism |
| Started in New York (1848). Embraced free love, birth control, and selecting parents to have planned children. Capitalism saved it, and sold baskets, flatware, and cutlery for a profit. | Oneida Community |
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