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."