VOCABULARY
A person who moves from one country to another
What is an immigrant?
Immigrants often lived in these crowded apartments
What are tenements?
This event caused many Irish to flee to America
What is the Great Potato Famine?
She was called "Moses" and helped slaves escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What is one challenge immigrants faced in America?
What is poverty, discrimination, etc.?
A reason that drives someone away from their homeland.
What is a push factor
Name one reason why tenements were dangerous
What is overcrowding / no plumbing / unsanitary?
Most Irish immigrants settled in which U.S. region?
What is the Northeast / New York and Boston?
He started The Liberator newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
What does "nativism" mean?
What is the belief that U.S.-born people are better than immigrants?
A reason that draws someone to a new place.
What is a pull factor?
Many immigrants worked in these two places.
What are factories and railroads?
A type of discrimination Irish immigrants faced.
What is religious discrimination?
Gave the speech "Ain’t I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Name one danger at immigrant jobs.
What is long hours / unsafe machines / low pay?
Process where machines and factories are used to make goods faster.
What is industrialization?
Two problems immigrants faced at work
What are low pay and long hours / dangerous machines?
Jobs often given to Irish immigrants.
What are low-paying, dangerous jobs?
He led a violent raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
What event pushed Irish people to immigrate?
What is the Great Potato Famine?
Unfair treatment based on race, religion, or nationality.
What is discrimination?
This belief led some Americans to dislike immigrants.
What is nativism?
How did society view Irish immigrants at first?
What is as "different" / with racism and stereotypes?
Name two goals of the abolitionist movement.
What are to end slavery and gain civil rights?
Name one way abolitionists fought slavery.
What is speeches, newspapers, Underground Railroad?