1. Chapter 16 Flashcards

2. Vocabulary:

3. Those who wanted to do away with slavery completely.

4. A crusade against the excessive use of alcoholic beverages.

5. An open air religious gathering where people came to hear traveling preachers.

6. Prohibited the sale of alcohol.

7. These guided slaves from station to station until they reached the North.

8. A plan to send former slaves back to Africa.

9. The education of males and females together in the same school.

10. People:

11. Improved public schools in Massachusetts while head of the State Board of Education.

12. Led a crusade for better treatment of the mentally ill and for prison reform.

13. The "Napoleon of the women's rights movement."

14. White abolitionist publisher of The Liberator; sat behind a curtain at the Anti- Slavery Convention.

15. One of the first women to attend a "men's" college; first American woman to keep her own name when she was married.

16. Known as "Black Moses"; helped over 300 slaves escape to the North.

17. Started the first college for women.

18. First licensed female physician in the United States; started the first training school for nurses.

19. Stirred up controversy about women's dress when she wore short skirts with pants underneath.

20. Famous Quaker conductor on the Underground Railroad.

21. Quaker minister who was not allowed to speak at the World Anti-Slavery Convention.

22. Ex-slave abolitionist who published The North Star.

23. Founded the Troy Female Seminary where girls learned serious academic subjects.

24. Wrote a letter to her husband asking him to “remember the ladies.”

25. Former slave who became a speaker about abolition and women's rights.

26. Grew up on a South Carolina plantation and later told about the horrors of slavery in public.

27. Founded a school for the deaf and proved that they could learn just like anyone else.

28. Author of the Declaration of Sentiments; among the founding leaders of the feminist movement.

29. Opened the first school for the blind; invented a system of raised letters so the blind could read.

30. Poets: Name the poet who wrote each of the following:

31. "Paul Revere's Ride", "Evangeline", "Song of Hiawatha", "The Courtship of Miles Standish"

32. "O Captain, my Captain", "I Hear America Singing", Leaves of Grass

33. "I Could Not Stop for Death", "I like to see it lap the miles", "I heard a fly buzz then I died"

34. "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."

35. "Aye, tear her tattered ensign down…her decks once red with hero's blood, where knelt the vanquished foe..."

36. "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!"

37. "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", "The Tell Tale Heart"

38. Poets: Name the poet who fits the description

39. This poet's dark poems and strange short stories might have been inspired by a sad life as an orphan and an alcoholic.

40. This poet's patriotism and love of democracy were demonstrated in poetry and through volunteering as a nurse in the Civil War.

41. Wrote poems about slavery and is known as the "abolitionist poet".

42. 1,800 poems were this poet's "letter to the world".

43. This poet is credited with having saved the U.S.S. Constitution from being destroyed in 1830.

44. Poet, Transcendentalist, Unitarian minister, and is sometimes known as "America's favorite philosopher".

45. Famous for narrative poems about historical subjects.

46. Writers: Name the writer who wrote each of the following

47. "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

48. Moby Dick

49. The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables

50. Walden & “Civil Disobedience”

51. Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, The Deerslayer, The Leatherstocking Tales

52. Writers: Name the writer who matches the description or saying

53. Wrote short stories of a mystical nature about events that could not possibly happen; first American author to gain recognition in Europe.

54. This author's most famous novel is a lesson in how rage and revenge can destroy a person.

55. This author's Puritan upbringing in New England contributed to many of his writings that criticized the Puritans.

56. Wrote about frontier life and Indians.

57. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."