Religious & Philosophical Shifts
This 1790s religious movement taught that individuals were responsible for seeking their own salvation.
Second Great Awakening
She campaigned for better treatment of the mentally ill after finding them housed in prisons.
Dorothea Dix
This group of female workers in Massachusetts went on strike in 1834 to protest wage cuts.
Mill Girls (Lowell Mills)
This political party, also known as the American Party, was formed in 1849 to spread nativist beliefs.
Know-Nothing Party
This movement aimed to ban the drinking of alcohol to protect women and children from abuse.
Temperance Movement
This 1830s movement, led by figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, stressed intuition and self-reliance over logic.
Transcendentalism
This "Father of Common School" believed that public education was the "great equalizer."
Horace Mann
When workers go on strike, owners often hire these people to work for low wages in their place.
strikebreakers
Many nativists feared that the U.S. would be taken over by people who followed this religion.
Catholicism
This document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, was signed at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Declaration of Sentiments
This practice, encouraged by transcendentalists, involved peaceful protest and refusing to obey laws one considers unjust.
civil disobedience
This former slave and abolitionist published an autobiography and a newspaper called The North Star.
Frederick Douglass
This word describes the growth of cities
Urbanization
This immigrant group arrived on the West Coast to escape economic hardship and work on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Chinese
This was the first state to pass a law for tax-supported public schools.
Pennsylvania
By 1850, church membership in America had grown from 1 in 15 people to this ratio.
1 in 6
She was a former slave who changed her name and traveled the country speaking for both abolition and women's rights.
Sojourner Truth
How did the increase in immigrants affect factory workers?
It could lead to lower pay as there were more people to do the job
What forced many Irish people to immigrate to the US?
The Potato Famine
Which region of America supported public education the most?
North
This famous author was a transcendentalist who encouraged Americans to stop looking to Europe for inspiration.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
These two women organized the first convention for women’s rights in 1848.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Why did most immigrants work in factories?
They could afford land for farming
Nativists wanted to increase the amount of time it took for an immigrant to achieve these two specific rights.
citizenship and voting
What was the name of the movement that wanted to end slavery?
Abolitionist Movement