Module 16

Question 1

Why did large amounts of Irish immigrants come to the U.S. in 1840?

Answer 1

To escape the Irish Potato Famine which caused scared amounts of food and disease.

Question 2

Why did many German immigrants come to the U.S.?

Answer 2

Many were inspired by the First Amendment’s religious freedom, and for economic reasons like finding work.

Question 3

What was the Know-Nothing Party?

Answer 3

They were a political organization, and they were against foreigners/immigrants. They believed in making it difficult for foreigners to become citizens and hold office

Question 10

What are nativists?

Answer 10

Nativists are people who oppose immigration.

Question 11

What’s the Know-Nothing Party?

Answer 11

A political organization that supported making it difficult for foreigners to come into office or become citizens.

Question 12

What are tenements? Who lived in them?

Answer 12

Tenements are poorly designed houses or apartments that held many people for immigrants who lived in the city

Question 13

What is transcendentalism?

Answer 13

The belief that people could rise above material things or authorities in life.

Question 14

Name 3 important Transcendentalists.

Answer 14

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau

Question 15

What is the concept of a utopian community?

Answer 15

A community that forms a perfect society

Question 16

What’s Romanticism?

Answer 16

The interest in nature, individual expression, and rejection of rules.

Question 17

Name 5 important authors and poets from the mid 1800s

Answer 17

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allen Poe was a famous short story writer, and Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Walt Whitman were others famous poets.

Question 18

What was the Second Great Awakening?

Answer 18

A spiritual awakening among Americans

Question 19

Which 2 people played roles in the religious awakening?

Answer 19

Charles Grandison Finley (a preacher), and Lyman Beecher (traditional minister that opposed Finley)

Question 20

What were the 5 main things people wanted to reform?

Answer 20

1. Temperance Movement (less alcohol usage)
2. Prison Reform (Better, separated prisons)
3. Education Movement (more equal and available education for all genders and social classes)
4. Women’s general rights
5. The Abolishing of Slavery

Question 21

What three people played large roles in the educational movement?

Answer 21

Horace Mann (common schools), Catherine Beecher (all-female academy), and Thomas Gallaudet (taught people with hearing impairments).

Question 22

Who was a powerful abolisher of slavery and advocate women’s rights?

Answer 22

Sojourner Truth

Question 23

Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

Answer 23

She sat with the Anti-Slavery Society to protest

Question 24

What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 24

It was the first public meeting about women’s rights in the U.S

Question 25

What was the Declaration of Sentiments?

Answer 25

Document that addressed the injustice towards women which used the Declaration of Independence as a reference.

Question 26

Name 3 Women's Rights Leaders

Answer 26

Lucy Stone (Spokesperson for the anti slave society), Susan B. Anthony (lead campaign), and Matilda Joslyn Gage (founded the national women suffrage association)