Key Figures
This woman, not formerly a part of the transcendentalist movement, would help create new ways of writing poetry by going against the rules of poetry that had been set in place.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
This movement was closely tied to the women's rights movement as many people who fought for women's rights came from this movement first.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
This movement was closely tied to the Abolitionist movement, as many abolitionists soon turned to fight for the rights of non-men.
What is the women's rights movement?
This movement was a big opponent of the overuse of alcohol. These reformers would cite that it was a sin, it caused fathers to be abusive, and it caused health issues.
What is the temperance movement?
This is a factor that lures immigrants into a country. Some examples include plenty of land, economic opportunities, and freedom.
What is a pull factor?
This man, named after the first president of the United States, would create the famous stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Who is Washington Irving?
This word means the right to vote and was a wild idea for women to have in the 19th century. However, some women including Elizabeth Stanton would call for this right.
This woman, nicknamed "Moses", was an integral part of the Underground Railroad and helped lead many to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This reform movement believed in God, man on his own, and nature all being spiritually connected and inherently good. This movement was not only spiritual but also literary and philiosophical.
What is the transcendentalist movement?
This is a factor that encourages people to emigrate out of their home country. Examples of this include crop failures, overpopulation, religious persecution, and wars.
What are push factors?
This woman did many things in the women's rights movement including: create the Seneca Falls Convention, call for women's suffrage, and help Susan B. Anthony create the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This woman, a Quaker, is a famous women's rights reformer who also believed in temperance and abolition. She would go on to found the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Stanton.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
While not actually under the Earth, this was a nickname for the system of helping escaped slaves reach freedom. This path would switch from the North to Canada after the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This religious movement was commonly associated with Baptists and Methodists, and would have revival meetings and had preachers evangelize outside of churches and in nature.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This nativist group, officially called the American Party, proposed laws that favored native-born Americans over immigrants, often focusing on religion.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
This teacher from Maine, witnessed many mentally ill women facing severe cold in their jail cells, and would persuade state legislators to create asylums to better house and care for the mentally ill.
While mostly known as an abolitionist, this powerful speaker was also a big proponent of women's rights. She would have a famous speech, "Ain't I a Woman?" which drew attention to black women in the fight for women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This man was an escaped slave who taught himself how to read and write and became one of the most powerful and outspoken opponents of slavery and supporters of women's rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This mill was the site of female workers creating one of the first female labor organizations in response to not getting paid as much as their male counterparts.
What is the Lowell Mill?
This plant disease killed Irelands entire potato crop leading to the Great Irish Famine.
What is blight?
The transcendentalist movement was led primarily by this man who would write "Nature," which reflected many of the ideas of transcendentalists.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Meaning "freedom," many abolitionist believed in this idea, and it would even turn into a famous proclamation by Abraham Lincoln.
What is emancipation?
This man (pun intended) is said to be the "father of education" and put the ideas of the common school movement into action under the idea of creating good citizens prepared for society and the workforce.
Who is Horace Mann?
While poor Irish and British immigrants stayed in the East, wealthier German migrants moved to this part of the country in the middle of the 19th century.
What is the Midwest?