Immigration
This country experienced a revolution in 1848, causing many people to immigrate to the United States.
Germany
The movement that aimed to end slavery was called this.
Abolition (the abolition movement)
In the early 1800s, married women could not own this.
Property
This city in New York hosted the first women’s rights convention in 1848.
Seneca Falls, New York
Many immigrants arrived in this U.S. city before moving inland or looking for jobs.
New York City (or East Coast ports like New York/Boston)
Many German immigrants moved to this region of the United States to buy land and farm.
The Midwest
She was an abolitionist who traveled the country giving speeches and supported women’s rights.
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony fought for women’s rights and also worked to promote this movement against alcohol.
Temperance
The document read by Elizabeth Cady Stanton was based on the Declaration of Independence. What was it called?
The Declaration of Sentiments
This word means “a severe shortage of food,” such as the one that hit Ireland.
Famine
A famine in this country caused more than a million people to leave in the 1840s.
Ireland
He was a former enslaved man who became a powerful abolitionist speaker.
Frederick Douglass
Emma Willard opened a school that provided this type of higher education for girls.
College courses / higher education
Nearly this many people attended the Seneca Falls Convention.
Nearly 300 people
Many women worked up to this many hours a day in harsh conditions.
12 hours
Irish immigrants often worked in these two types of jobs when they arrived with little money.
Servants and factory or railroad/canal workers
William Lloyd Garrison published this anti-slavery newspaper.
The Liberator
Women often worked long hours in rooms that were overcrowded and lacked this quality.
Ventilation (or clean, safe air)
One resolution stated that women should have this “sacred right,” meaning the right to vote.
Elective franchise / the right to vote
Factories in the Northeast and Midwest depended on this group of people for labor.
Immigrants
German and other immigrants helped factories grow by providing this essential need.
Labor (workers)
This invention by Eli Whitney increased the need for enslaved labor in the South.
The cotton gin
The right to vote is also known by this term.
Suffrage (or the right to vote)
Name the two women who organized the first women’s rights convention.
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This term means to improve society or make positive changes, something many women worked to do.
Reform