Refomers
Dorthea Dix led which reform movement?
Prison reform
The model for the Declaration of Sentiments was:
The Declaration of Independence
How did the geogrpahy of the South help support cash crops?
Fertile soil, rainfall, long growing seasons, ways to export crops
What was life like for free African Americans in the North?
They were not treated as equal to other citizens.
The most common form of resistance for enslaved people was:
quiet, passive acts
Henry David Thoreau believed that people should be indidualistic or share everything?
He believed in communities that worked as a collective and shared resources.
Were women at this time able to own property and control their own money (wages)?
No
How did the invention of the cotton gin impact the South?
Cotton became the South's most important crop.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
a shift from handmade products to machine-made products
How did Harriet Tubman help support the Underground Railroad?
As an escaped slave, she guided slaves from the South to freedom.
Frederick Douglas spread his message through his own:
newspaper
ROC if you know the name of it.
Elizabeth Blackwell wasn't admitted to medical school because:
most medical schools did not admit women
What was an effect of segregation policies in the North?
People were separated by race in public places.
What was the underground railroad?
a secret network of free blacks and whites who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to free states and Canada
which group benefited most from the establishment of public schools?
boys
The lives of women and enslaved people were similar in that:
both of them were denied their rights
Which of these best describes the difference between an agrarian and an industrialist in the 1800s?
One favors policies that support farming and the other favors policies that support factories.
Why were textile mills built near rivers?
Rivers provided power to operate the mills
The 'invisible church' benefited or helped enslaved people in what way?
provided them a place to comfort one another
The obstacle of women to end slavery was that they didn't have the right to do what?
vote
Why did the South oppose laws to provide federal money for internal improvements, such as roads and canals?
They thought only the North would benefit.
Which of these was a major cause of immigration to the United States between 1845 and 1860?
political conflicts
Slaves expressed African cultural traditions in which three kinds of ways?
Through their art, folktales, and songs