VOCABULARY
PEOPLE
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
MIXED BAG
MIXED BAG II
100
TENEMENT
What is a run-down, low-rent, over-crowded apartment building?
100
Dorothea Dix
Who is the person who worked to improve the conditions of inmates and the mentally ill?
100
Seneca Falls, NY
Where was the 1st Women's Rights Convention held in 1848?
100
William l. Garrison
Who was an abolitionist and the publisher of the newspaper called "The Liberator?"
100
Industrial Revolution
What is the period of time where goods were manufactured in factories?
200
Reform
What is to change or fix for the better?
200
Federick Douglass
Who was an escaped slave who gave speeches about his treatment as a slave and published a newspaper called "The North Star?"
200
19th Amendment
What is the amendment that gave women the right to vote in 1920?
200
Irish and Germans
What were the 2 largest groups of immigrants that came to America between 1845 & 1860?
200
Finding adoptive and foster families for orphaned children (of the cities) in the west.
What were the Orphan Trains?
300
Abolitionist
What is the name given to a person who tries to end or abolish slavery?
300
Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who are the 2 women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention on Women's Rights?
300
Declaration of Sentiments
What is the document written at the Seneca Falls Convention that listed the problems that women had?
300
Potato Famine
What was the main reason why so many immigrants came to America from Ireland?
300
Sojourner Truth
Who was an escaped slave that gave speeches about her time as a slave that also worked for women's rights?
400
Factory
What is a building where goods are manufactured called?
400
Horace Mann
Who worked to improve the public school system?
400
Property rights
What is one of the rights denied to women in the mid 1800's?
400
20,000 miles
How many miles of railroad tracks were there in the North in the mid 1800's?
400
Orphans, dirty streets, crime, fires, and poor housing
What are some of the problems of the growing cities?
500
Canal
What is a man-made waterway called?
500
White boys
What group of people that benefitted MOST from the reforms made to the public school?
500
Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who were the two women that organized the Seneca Fall Convention?
500
Erie Canal
The canal that connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River.
500
Fast running rivers and streams
Why were most factories built in North?
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