History- Ch. 14

Question 1

People who group together to fight for better working conditions

Answer 1

Labor Union

Question 2

I helped people with mental illness

Answer 2

Dorothea Dix

Question 3

Focuses on the individual, imagination, creativity, emotion, inspired by nature

Answer 3

Romanticism

Question 4

Taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world

Answer 4

Transcendentalism

Question 5

I encouraged people to practice civil disobedience and wrote the book Walden

Answer 5

Henry David Thoreau

Question 6

The first big meeting of the women’s rights movement

Answer 6

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 7

Former slave who works towards abolition and women’s rights/ abolition speaker

Answer 7

Sojourner Truth

Question 8

I was the first head of an education board

Answer 8

Horace Mann

Question 9

Helped slaves get to the north where they would be free

Answer 9

Underground Railroad

Question 10

I was a former slave who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad

Answer 10

Harriet Tubman

Question 11

The loss of potatoes in Ireland

Answer 11

Irish Potatoe Famine

Question 12

The movement that discourages the making and consumption of alcohol

Answer 12

Temperance movement

Question 13

What are some good and bad things of immigration?

Answer 13

GOOD:
-growth of cities
- new people who were good at certain jobs
- new ways to do things/ different methods & customs
BAD:
- overpopulation
- disease spreads
- more people competing for the same job
- higher crime rate
- nativists

Question 14

Explain why women and employers were leading the temperance movement.

Answer 14

WOMEN:
- husbands come home a day after getting payed with only half the paycheck
- husbands beat the children and wives
- trying to eliminate family suffering
EMPLOYERS:
- profits are suffering
- men come in late
- men don’t pay attention to what they’re doing
- men end up damaging the machinery or the product