Immigration and Urbanization
Reform Movements
Movement to End Slavery
Women's Rights
Miscellaneous
100
Name three differences between the Irish and German Immigrants
A. Irish were generally poorer B. Many Germans settled in the midwest C. Germans more likely to have more skills and work in farming D. Irish mostly Catholic; Germans a mix of religions
100
A. Who is Dorothea Dix? B. She leads to the creation of what?
A. A woman who helped promote the rights and living conditions of mentally ill people B. She leads to the creation of houses of correction and reform for mentally ill people and children jailed incorrectly with criminals
100
What does the term colonization mean?
Some people believed that blacks should be sent back to Africa and wanted to set up a colony of former slaves in Africa.
100
Why do you think the women's rights movement may have taken place during this time in antebellum America?
This was a time of many reform movements, especially abolitionism, and women thought it was a good opportunity to reform their rights. Many women gained skill and practice in promoting other reform movements and used this for their own cause. Women were gaining better educational opportunities, which helped them organize.
100
Why might some Northerners oppose slavery?
They feared that once freed, the slaves would take their low skilled jobs
200
a. What party did the nativists create. b. What were two goals of this party
A. Know Nothing Party B. Eliminate immigration, stop immigrants from voting, stop immigrants from holding any public office
200
A. What is the Temperance Movement? B. Who is an influential and important leader of this movement?
A. A movement hoping to stop the use of hard alcohol and all alcohol in some cases B. Lyman Beecher
200
What are two differences between some abolitionists
Some wanted blacks to have full social and civil equality, but some only wanted to free the slaves without giving them full equality Some thought slavery would gradually die out and end, but other wanted an immediate abolition or ending of slavery.
200
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
It was the first public meeting of women's rights in the country held in Seneca Falls New York in 1848.
200
A. Who are the Grimke Sisters? B. Why would their situation help them promote their cause?
A. Sister abolitionist from slave holding South Carolina B. It gave them an inside look at the horrors of slavery and let them tell this to Americans. Many Americans would be more likely to believe them since they are coming from the South.
300
Describe what a tenement is
poorly designed apartment buildings that housed large numbers of people, every crowded, dirty, many immigrants lived in these
300
A. What is the Second Great Awakening? B. What is its view on sin and how does this affect other reform movements?
A. A Christian revival movement during middle of the 19th century B. Viewed sin as avoidable. This meant that people could avoid sins and change themselves. They could change and stop the sins like the effects of drinking and slavery, and inequality
300
A. Who is William Lloyd Garrison? B. What does he write? C. What is part B? C. What society does he create?
A. Important (maybe most important white abolitionist). B. Writes "The Liberator" C. It is the first anti-slavery weekly newspaper D. He creates the Anti-Slavery Society
300
a. List three things that women were trying to achieve during this movement? b. List three reasons why people opposed the women's right movement?
a. equal pay, better job opportunities, the right to vote, ability to participate in church services, equal property rights b. Thought women needed protection, thought women should be in home, thought women were mentally and physically weaker, thought women different and unequal
300
Who was Thomas Galluadet?
A leader in the educational reform for people with hearing impairments
400
How did the Industrial Revolution increase the growth of cities
Industrial Revolution led to the creation of low skilled jobs that many immigrants flocked to the cities to take these jobs
400
Who is Charles Grandison Finney
The most influential and important leader of the Second Great Awakening
400
A. Who is Frederick Douglas? B. Why is he so influential in the abolition movement?
A. He is former slave who escaped and became a leading black abolitionist B. Influences America by portraying the true horrors of slavery to Americans who may not have known the truth.
400
What two women helped to create the Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
400
What was the Second Great Awakening characterized by?
Camp revival meetings lasting for days in open or wilderness areas
500
a.How did the Transportation revolution help increase the growth of cities? b. List four problems with many cities in antebellum America
a. Revolution allowed more people to travel into and out of the city, allowed goods to travel in and out of city. b. Lacked safe housing, no sewage systems, no organzied fire or police protection, overcrowded, disease spread easily
500
A. Who is Horace Mann B. He is the leader of something. What is it? C. What does the term in part B mean?
A. Educational reformer and leader of common school movement B. He is main leader of common school movement C. The common school movement is a movement to educate all children in a common place regardless of their backgrounds
500
Give a description of the Underground Railroad
It was a system of people, places, and routes that helped slaves escape. It was never under any single authority or person. It was not a literal Underground Railroad. It was a system that was illegal since it would become illegal to help slaves escape.
500
A. What is the Declaration of Sentiments. B. Why was it so important?
A. It was a document created at the Seneca Falls Convention B. It outlined the reasons why women were upset and outlined the tactics they used to achieve their goals
500
A. What was Susan B. Anthony known for? B. What does the term suffrage mean?
a. She helped gain women better property rights and better equality of jobs. She also set up the National Woman Suffrage Association. b. Suffrage relates to the gaining of the right to vote
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