Chapter 9 Study Guide
1. Who was the central figure to the revivalist movement?
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2. What kind of sermons did Finney give in New York City?
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3. What school did Lyman Beecher attend?
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4. How many children did Lyman Beecher have?
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5. What philosophical movement began in Massachusetts, which meant, “to rise above”?
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6. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson help start with his writing in 1834?
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7. What great book did Thoreau write in 1854?
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8. What was the name of Thoreau’s most famous essay?
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9. What reform movement organized to eliminate alcohol consumption?
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10. What did the Greene and Delaware moral society warn, in 1815?
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11. How many members did the American Temperance Society have in 1834?
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12. What was it called when people did not drink alcohol?
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13. What did Abraham Lincoln equal the Temperance Revolution to?
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14. What was the first state to ban the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic beverages?
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15. What happened to alcohol consumption in the U.S. between the 1830’s and 1860’s?
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16. What did many working-class and middle-class citizens start to demand in the 1820’s?
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17. Who was Massachusetts’ first secretary of the Board of Education?
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18. What kind of values did McGuffey’s textbooks promote?
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19. What term refers to the separation of people according to race?
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20. What did Dorothea Dix do over a 2-year span, starting in 1841?
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21. What do they call small societies, which are dedicated to perfection in social and political
conditions?
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22. What was the movement to end slavery called?
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23. What group of people are known for having the earliest known protest of slavery?
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24. What man founded an anti-slavery newspaper in Ohio in 1821?
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25. What is the freeing of enslaved persons called?
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26. What West African country was established in 1822 for former slaves and free blacks?
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27. How many free blacks and former slaves migrated to Liberia by 1831?
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28. What newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison begin to publish in 1831?
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29. Who was Frederick Douglass sent to when he was 17?
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30. What was the name of the newspaper started by Douglass?
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31. What was one division among abolitionists?
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32. What was a second division among abolitionists?
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33. What was a third division among abolitionists?
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34. What was the escape route for runaway slaves, called?
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35. What was the nickname of the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
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36. Who was the editor of the St. Louis Observer?
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37. What stopped anti-slavery petitions from being read or acted upon in the House of Reps?
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38. Where did most, lower-class women, take jobs after industrialization?
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39. Catherine Beecher’s most famous work was called…….
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40. What woman demanded that Southern women fight slavery?
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41. Who became the editor of the National Anti-Slavery Standard in 1841?
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42. Who did the World Anti-Slavery Convention vote to prohibit from their proceedings?
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43. What was the first women’s rights convention in U.S. History called?
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44. What is the right to vote called?
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45. What woman began practicing medicine in New York City in 1850?
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46. What book did Margaret Fuller write in 1845?
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47. How many African American women attended the Seneca Falls Convention?
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48. What African American woman walked into a convention of white women in Akron, Ohio?
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49. How many immigrants arrived in the U.S. during the 1820’s?
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50. How many immigrants arrived in the U.S. during the 1840’s?
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51. What caused hundreds of thousands of Irish to flee to the U.S. from 1845 to 1849?
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52. What happened to the immigrants when they applied for and were granted American
citizenship?
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53. What (3) diversions did the immigrants have from the daily grind of life?
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54. What is it called when someone is treated unequally because of one’s race, nationality, sex, or
religion?
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55. What did Anti-Immigrant citizens form in 1843?
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56. What did churches in the slaveholding states, who endorsed slavery, form in 1845?
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