Immigrants
Arts & Lit
Women & Reform
Abolition
Potporri
100
Factors that cause people to want to leave one place and settle in another
What are push-pull factors?
100
Time period marked by art and literature that stressed emotion, a connection to nature, an everyday hero, and independent values.
What is Romanticism?
100
Many women's rights advocates began as this
What is an abolitionist?
100
Was once a slave, but escaped to the North and showed whites that black people can be gifted public speakers against slavery
Who is Frederick Douglas?
100
An ideal society attempted by the Quakers
What is a Utopia?
200
A famine in this country led many to immigrate to the US during the mid-1800's
What is Ireland?
200
The Hudson River School was know for this
What is lush, natural landscapes?
200
A campaign to end the sale and consumption of alcohol
What is the temperance movement?
200
The head conductor on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
Someone opposed to slavery, but not actively seeking its end
Who is a sympathizer?
300
Caused most of the prejudice against Irish immigrants, including the creation of the Know-Nothing party
What is their Catholic faith?
300
The philosophy that came out of the mid-1800's that stressed the importance of the spiritual world and a connection with nature
What is transcendentalism?
300
A group of workers who unite in order to ask for higher wages and better working conditions
What is a labor union?
300
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that humanized slaves
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
Three influences of Germans on American culture
What are hot dogs, Christmas trees, kindergartens, and gymnasiums?
400
Three pull factors for many immigrants during the 1800's
What are freedom of religion, economic opportunity, and abundant land?
400
Created the first American dictionary that broke from British usage and included truly American words
Who is Noah Webster?
400
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton called this even in order to organize women and specify what reforms they wanted
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
Newspaper where William Lloyd Garrison published his abolitionist views
What is the Liberator?
400
Many women sought for an improvement in life not only for themselves, but also for those in this deplorable place
What is in asylums?
500
Native-born Americans who wanted to eliminate foreign immigration
What are Nativists?
500
Transcendentalists who promoted the idea of civil disobedience to unjust laws
Who are Emmerson and Thoreau?
500
Susan B. Anthony fought specifically for women's suffrage, this means
What is the right to vote?
500
The three great abolitionists of the 19th century
Who are Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth
500
Considered the Father of Romantic Literature
Who is Washington Irving?
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