A severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death is known as
a famine
100
People who come to a country to settle are called
immigrants
100
This style of painting focused on landscapes of mountains, rivers, and forests in New York State and in the American West.
Hudson River school
100
Organized by churches, the _______________ was a campaign in the early 1800s to stop the drinking of alcohol.
temperance movement
100
_______________ was an escaped from slavery to speak out against it in the United States and overseas; also published an antislavery newspaper.
Frederick Douglass
200
A person who leaves his or her country to live elsewhere is called
an emigrant
200
This style of art stressed the individual, imagination, creativity, and emotion.
romanticism
200
Writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau drew on these ideas to emphasize learning through self-examination as well as from books.
transcendentalism
200
In 1837, Massachusetts set up the first state board of education in the nation, with _______________ at its head.
Horace Mann
200
Another name for the movement to end slavery is _______________.
abolition
300
A person born in a country who wants to eliminate foreign influence from his or her country is known as
a nativist
300
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the creator of "Paul Revere's Ride," was a member of this group.
fireside poets
300
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, the _______________ inspired Americans to believe that they could make society better.
Second Great Awakening
300
New Harmony, Indiana, and Brook Farm, Massachusetts, reformers tried to change society by creating a _______________.
utopia
300
_______________ was an antislavery reformer who also worked for women's rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
400
The cheapest way to travel by ship to America in the mid-1800s was by purchasing a ticket for
steerage
400
This way of thinking stressed that the spiritual world was more important than the physical world.
transcendentalism
400
Boston reformer _______________ was shocked to find that some prisoners were in jail not because they had committed crimes, but because they were mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
400
Churches in the early 1800s tried to reawaken religious faith by organizing _______________.
revivals
400
_______________ a devout Christian who was freed from slavery by Quakers and devoted the rest of her life to speaking for abolition.
Sojourner Truth
500
A negative opinion that is not based on facts is called a
prejudice
500
This inspired authors like Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper to write about adventure and the wilderness.
romanticism
500
Women mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, organized a _______________ for better working conditions in 1836.
strike
500
_______________ was an escaped slave who became one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
500
The _______________ sought expanded rights for women, including the right to vote.