APUSH Chapter 15 Flashcards

A reformer who worked hard to improve the treatment of the mentally ill and was appointed superintendent of women nurses for the United States at the outbreak of the Civil War.

He contributed to American folk music by capturing the spirit of enslaved people with his songs.

The 'Biglow Papers' and was associated with the Fireside Poets.

<p>William Miller.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is best known for 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was a prominent poet, essayist, novelist, and lecturer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and advocate for women's rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wrote numerous sea stories and historical novels known as the 'Leatherstocking Tales'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first female graduate of a medical college.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was an American education reformer and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An American Methodist revivalist and politician in Illinois.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Known as the 'Schoolmaster of the Republic', he wrote Webster's Dictionary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She was an American social activist and abolitionist who was a leading figure in the early women's rights movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An American dietary reformer known for his emphasis on vegetarianism and the Temperance Movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is best known for his short stories and is a gifted poet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Women's rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of the Transcendentalist movement and an American lecturer, essayist, and poet.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>His novel 'The Scarlet Letter'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A wealthy Scottish textile manufacturer and member of the New Harmony Utopian Society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Transcendentalism and civil disobedience.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Herman Melville.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was the greatest of revival preachers and held massive religious revivals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was influential for education reform and authored books that taught morality and idealism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The creator of the Mormon religion, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She gained respect for women's schools and established the Troy Female Seminary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A professor at Harvard and a pioneer in biology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A famous collection of poems known as 'Leaves of Grass'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A painter known for his work 'Birds of America'.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A professor at Harvard College who taught modern languages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Advocates against slavery.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Writing 'Little Women' and other books inspired by her family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A competent painter known for several portraits of George Washington.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Women's rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chronicling the struggle between France and Britain in colonial North America.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He led the religion after Joseph Smith's death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group established in 1826 for the reform and abstinence of alcohol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A drastic statute of 1851 that prohibited the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor in Maine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A nontrinitarian Christian religion that believes in one God.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mid-19th century American art movement characterized by landscape painting.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Seneca Falls Convention that advocated for women's rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Writers including Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A region in upstate New York known for the fervor of the Second Great Awakening.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A list of grievances written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A term associated with new ideas in literature that protested against societal norms.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Followers of William Miller who believed in the Second Coming of Christ.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Utopian community in Oneida, New York that strived for perfection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints created by Joseph Smith.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, founder of the circus.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A hard-surfaced highway built in the 1790s in Pennsylvania that extended 62 miles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Believers rely on reason rather than revelation and on science rather than the Bible.</p> Signup and view all the answers