Chapter 14

Question 0

The two groups main groups of immigrants were: all

Answer 0

1) Irish

2) German

Question 1

Between 1840 and 1860 more that ____ immigrants came to the US.

Answer 1

4 million

Question 2

The __ came fleeing starvation due to a terrible __ famine.

Answer 2

Irish, Potato

Question 3

The __ usually arrived with money and bought farm land in the __.

Answer 3

Germans, mid west

Question 4

The Germans brought over the tradition of the __.

Answer 4

Christmas Tree

Question 5

The ones who opposed immigration were called __.

Answer 5

nativists

Question 6

The nativists formed a political party to try and limit immigration called the __.

Answer 6

Know nothing party

Question 7

city life was hard for four reasons: all

Answer 7

1) unpaved roads
2) animals wondered all over
3) it was unsanitary
4) they had no water system

Question 8

the __ was a social and economic level between the wealthy and poor.

Answer 8

middle class

Question 9

Three things began to grow in cities: all

Answer 9

1) libraries
2) clubs
3) theaters

Question 10

a __ were poorly designed housing structures that were dirty, overcrowded, and unsafe.

Answer 10

tenements

Question 11

__ was a belief system in which followers thought they could rise above material things in life.

Answer 11

transcendentalism

Question 12

__ was a minister who thought you should be guided by your inner light.

Answer 12

emerson

Question 13

__ most famous essay was self reliance

Answer 13

emerson

Question 14

__ wrote women in the nineteenth century which was a book about women’s basic rights.

Answer 14

Margaret fuller

Question 15

__ believed people should act by their own idea of right and wrong.

Answer 15

henry David Thoreau

Question 16

__ refused to obey unjust laws.

Answer 16

henry David Thoreau

Question 17

__ hoped to form a perfect society .

Answer 17

utopian communities

Question 18

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the __.

Answer 18

Scarlett Letter

Question 19

__ wrote mystery stories and poetry.

Answer 19

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 20

herman Melville wrote __.

Answer 20

Moby Dick

Question 21

__ who wrote poems such as leaves of grass.

Answer 21

walt Whitman

Question 22

__ was one of the leaders of the second great awakening

Answer 22

Charles Grandison Finney

Question 23

__ was aimed at limiting alcohol consumption

Answer 23

temperance movement

Question 24

in __ the first economic convention of the __ was held.

Answer 24

1836, American Temperance Union

Question 25

In __ __ banned the sell of liquor.

Answer 25

1846, Maine

Question 26

Prison conditions were bad for three reasons: list 2

Answer 26

1) filthy 2) they were overcrowded 3) the young and the old were housed together

Question 27

__ insisted that prisoners needed rehabilitation

Answer 27

Dorthea Dix

Question 28

__ founded the Perkins institute for the blind in the 1830s in __.

Answer 28

Samuel Howe, boston

Question 29

__ started the first american school for deaf children in __.

Answer 29

Thomas Gallaudet, Hartford Connecticut

Question 30

The __ stated all children regardless of background would be taught in a common place.

Answer 30

Common School Movement

Question 31

__ led the common school movement.

Answer 31

Horace Mann

Question 32

__ also began to set up normal schools for educating teachers.

Answer 32

Horace Mann

Question 33

__ opened an all female academy in Connecticut.

Answer 33

Catherine Beecher

Question 34

__ in Macon, ga was the first American womens college opened in __.

Answer 34

wesleyan College , 1836

Question 35

The __ was founded by Richard Allen.

Answer 35

Free African Religious Society

Question 36

The Free african religious soc. pushed for __ and __.

Answer 36

equality, education

Question 37

In __ __ in Ohio became the fist college people to admit __.

Answer 37

1835, oberlin college, african americans

Question 38

in 1817 __ was formed.

Answer 38

the american colonization soc.

Question 39

the am. colonization soc. bought a strip of land in west africa called __.

Answer 39

Liberia

Question 40

__ was a place where free black people could settle.

Answer 40

liberia

Question 41

__ ran an abolitionist newspaper called the Liberator.

Answer 41

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 42

__ and __ were two sister form a slave holding family who wrote pamphlets and a book to try to convince other white people to join the fight against slavery.

Answer 42

Angelina, Sarah grimke

Question 43

__ was an escaped slave who published a newspaper in the north.

Answer 43

Fredrick Douglass

Question 44

__ was famous for her anti-slavery speeches.

Answer 44

sougjourner truth

Question 45

the __ was the name given to a loosly knit group of white and black abolitionists who helped escaped slaves get to the north to be free.

Answer 45

Underground Railroad

Question 46

__ led escaping slaves to __ which were homes of people secretly storing runaways.

Answer 46

Conductors, Stations

Question 47

the most famous conductor was __.

Answer 47

Harriet Tubman

Question 48

__ and __ organized a womens rights convention at __>

Answer 48

Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, Seneca Falls New York

Question 49

The __ stated all men and women were created equal. women have been denied all rights that belong to them as citizens of the US.

Answer 49

Declaration of Sentiments

Question 50

__ argued men and women should be paid the same if they are performing the same job.

Answer 50

Susan B. Anthony