chapter 16 flashcards. vocabulary: those who wanted to do away with slavery completely
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Chapter 16 Flashcards
Vocabulary:
Those who wanted to do away with
slavery completely.
A crusade against the excessive use of alcoholic beverages.
An open air religious gathering where
people came to hear traveling preachers.
Prohibited the sale of alcohol.
These guided slaves from station to
station until they reached the North.
A plan to send former slaves back
to Africa.
The education of males and females
together in the same school.
People:
Improved public schools in
Massachusetts while head of the State
Board of Education.
Led a crusade for better treatment of the mentally ill and for prison reform.
The "Napoleon of the women's rights
movement."
White abolitionist publisher of The
Liberator; sat behind a curtain at the Anti-Slavery Convention.
One of the first women to attend a
"men's" college; first American woman to keep her own name
when she was married.
Known as "Black Moses"; helped over 300 slaves escape to
the North.
Started the first college for women.
First licensed female physician in the United States;
started the first training school for
nurses.
Stirred up controversy about
women's dress when she wore short skirts
with pants underneath.
Famous Quaker conductor on the
Underground Railroad.
Quaker minister who was not allowed to speak at the World
Anti-Slavery Convention.
Ex-slave abolitionist who published The
North Star.
Founded the Troy Female Seminary
where girls learned serious academic
subjects.
Wrote a letter to her husband asking him to “remember the
ladies.”
Former slave who became a speaker
about abolition and women's rights.
Grew up on a South Carolina plantation and later told about
the horrors of slavery in public.
Founded a school for the deaf and proved that they could learn
just like anyone else.
Author of the Declaration of
Sentiments; among the founding leaders
of the feminist movement.
Opened the first school for the blind; invented a system of raised letters so the
blind could read.
Poets: Name the poet who wrote each
of the following:
"Paul Revere's Ride", "Evangeline", "Song of Hiawatha", "The Courtship of Miles
Standish"
"O Captain, my Captain", "I Hear America Singing", Leaves of Grass
"I Could Not Stop for Death", "I like to see it lap the miles", "I
heard a fly buzz then I died"
"By the rude bridge that arched the
flood, their flag to April's breeze
unfurled, here the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard 'round
the world."
"Aye, tear her tattered ensign
down…her decks once red with hero's blood, where knelt
the vanquished foe..."
"We cross the prairies as of old the Pilgrims crossed the
sea, to make the West as they the
East, the homestead of the FREE!"
"The Raven", "Annabel Lee", "The
Tell Tale Heart"
Poets: Name the poet who fits the
description
This poet's dark poems and strange short stories might have been inspired by a sad life as an
orphan and an alcoholic.
This poet's patriotism and love of democracy were demonstrated in
poetry and through volunteering as a nurse in the Civil
War.
Wrote poems about slavery and is known as the "abolitionist
poet".
1,800 poems were this poet's "letter to
the world".
This poet is credited with having saved
the U.S.S. Constitution from being destroyed in
1830.
Poet, Transcendentalist, Unitarian minister, and is sometimes
known as "America's favorite
philosopher".
Famous for narrative poems about
historical subjects.
Writers: Name the writer who wrote
each of the following
"Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Moby Dick
The Scarlet Letter and The House of
Seven Gables
Walden& “Civil
Disobedience”
Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, The Deerslayer, The
Leatherstocking Tales
Writers: Name the writer who matches the description or
saying
Wrote short stories of a mystical nature about events that could not possibly
happen; first American author to gain recognition in
Europe.
This author's most famous novel is a
lesson in how rage and revenge can destroy a person.
This author's Puritan upbringing in New
England contributed to many of his writings that criticized the
Puritans.
Wrote about frontier life and Indians.
"If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer."