QUESTIONS WITH FULL EXPLANATIONS
◉Dorothea Dix. Answer: sought and got improved treatment for the
mentally insane
◉American Temperance Society. Answer: • founded in Boston, 1826
• used a variety of methods to encourage temperance (discourage
drinking)
◉Grimke sisters. Answer: Sisters who pushed for the abolition of
slavery
◉Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (1848). Answer: • It
wrote a "Declaration of Sentiments" arguing that "all men and
women were created equal"
• It demanded female suffrage
• Neither of these things happened anytime soon, but the women's
rights movement was born
◉Brook Farm. Answer: • Started in Massachusetts (1841)
• It attracted Transcendentalist intellectuals
, ◉Oneida Community. Answer: was communal utopian community
that embraced free love, birth control, and selecting parents to have
planned children
◉Shakers. Answer: • were begun by Mother Ann Lee as a religious
sect
• stressed simplicity in their lives and separated the sexes
◉Thomas Jefferson. Answer: 3rd President of the United States,
Virginian, Democratic Republican who believed in an agrarian vision
of America with a weak central government. Responsible for the
Louisiana Purchase.
◉Corrupt Bargain. Answer: • Election of 1824
• Henry Clay supported Adams and swayed house vote
• Adams won and appoined Clay as Secretary of State
• Appeared as if Adams bribed Clay with position of Sec. of State
◉universal white male suffrage. Answer: All white men could vote.
No more property restrictions.
◉John Quincy Adams. Answer: • President (1824-1828)
• Puritanical Yankee