Reform Movements
The movement to end slavery
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
This concept claimed Americans had a god given right to settle the American West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
After the war, most freed African Americans turned to this exploitative farming practice to get by.
What is Sharecropping?
These groups of laborers worked to get better working conditions, using strategies such as strikes.
What are unions?
These are the reasons why immigrants choose to go to a specific place (Why do I want to go to this place?).
What are pull factors?
This religious movement spurred many to join reform movements
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This book, authored by Harriet Beecher Stowe, brought the horrors of slavery to the forefront of the nation's politics; suddenly, everyone was discussing abolition.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This statement issued by Lincoln was used to allow African Americans to join the army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This is the French term for when the government decides to be hands off with business.
This was the main immigration station during the 1800s, it catered mostly to Europeans.
What is Ellis Island?
A slave rebellion that led to the South creating restrictive "slave codes"
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
This legal Act led to a miniature Civil War in Kansas, known as "Bleeding Kansas".
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was Lincoln's reconstruction plan, arguing that 10 percent of the state's population had to vote to rejoin the Union before it could be readmitted.
What is the 10 Percent Plan?
This is the economic model when the government is in control and providing major industry for the public.
What is Socialism?
This law prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the country, it remained until 1943.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This man was the leader of the education reform movement, and is the reason states have a set curriculum for public schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
This abolitionist raided Harper's Ferry in Virginia, and was considered a terrorist by the South and a martyr to the North.
Who is John Brown?
The leader of the Radical Republicans, he argued that if equality was ever going to be reached African Americans required the right to vote.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
This fire led to the deaths of 146 workers, and led to national outrage which helped created the safety conditions we have today.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This political ideology argues that protecting the interests of native residents of a country is the most important thing; it normally includes an unhealthy dose of xenophobia.
What is nativism?
This woman reported on the appalling conditions in prisons, specifically for the mentally ill, which successfully led to the establishment of mental health facilities and safer prisons.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This court case ruled that enslaved African Americans had no rights, and that slave owners could continue owning slaves no matter where they were, and thus there were no free states.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This amendment stated that if you were born on American soil, you are an American citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This invention allowed people to ride upstream, now we can go UP and down the Mississippi River.
These homes were created to deal with the influx of immigrants coming into cities, and usually housed 3-10 families.
What are tenements?