Hopes of Immigrants
What is the opposite of an immigrant?
Emigrant
A group of workers who get together to fight for better working conditions.
labor union
Harriet Tubman
to stop work and demand better working conditions
strike
severe food shortage leading to starvation
famine
What are the positive and negative forces that make a person leave their country, or go to one?
Pull and Push Factors
This religious group of people tried to reform society based on their religious values but severely died out.
Shakers
Speaker for the Massachusettes Anti-Slavery Society, who was also an escaped slave.
Fredrick Douglass
a series of escape routes used by slaves to escape the South
Underground Railroad
the right to vote
suffrage
This party fought against immigration and any foreign people holding office.
Know-Nothing Party.
The first college to accept women.
Oberlin
Abolitionist speaker who chose her own name after escaping slavery.
Sojourner Truth
the campaign to stop the drinking of alchohol.
temperance movement
the movement to end slavery
abolition
What was the method AND type of conditions used by most immigrants to sail to America?
Boats and the steerage
"The great equalizer" who set out to develop public education for all ages.
Horace Mann
The first women's rights convention held in New York.
Seneca Falls Convention
a negative opinion that is not based upon facts
prejudice
Native-born Americans who wnated to eliminate foreign influence
nativist
John Jacob Bausch and Henry Lomb invented what in 1853?
lenses for eyeglasses
What was Thomas H. Gallaudet famous for in 1817?
created school for the deaf
What abolitionist newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison publish in 1831?
The Liberator
the religion that was feared to overthrow the democracy in America.
Roman Catholic Faith
the doctrine, or belief, that each person can experience a sudden change convertion and experience a new spiritual relationship with God
evangelicalism