Hopes of Immigrants
reasons or forces that cause people to leave their native land AND cause people to choose to move to a new place
"push" and "pull" factors
members of a Christian sect that practiced communal living and did not allow marriage or childbearing
Shakers
conductor of the Underground Railroad who led enslaved people to freedom
Harriet Tubman
Finish this phrase "All men..."
"are created equal"
severe food shortage
famine
John Downe left England to find a better life in another country for him and his family, making him a...
emigrant
the campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol
temperance movement
Henry Brown made it from Georgia to Philadelphia traveling in this.
a box
the right to vote
suffrage
The cheapest deck on a ship.
steerage
many early Americans had these negative opinions not based on facts about immigrants.
prejudices
reformer who advocated improving education
Horace Mann
abolitionist and feminist who spoke against slavery and for women's rights
Sojourner Truth
The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was modeled after this famous American document
Declaration of Independence
to stop work to demand better working conditions
strike
These people wanted to eliminate foreign influence in their country.
nativists
a reformer who was a pioneer in the movement for better treatment of the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
abolitionist and journalist who became an influential lecturer in the North and abroad
Frederick Douglass
reformer who helped organize the first women's rights convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions
labor union
the political party in the USA during 1850's that was against recent immigrants and Roman Catholics.
Know-Nothing Party
the renewal of religious faith in the 1790's and early 1800's
Second Great Awakening
William Lloyd Garrison published this newspaper for the abolitionist movement
"The Liberator"
first women's rights gathering in New York
Seneca Falls Convention
the movement to stop slavery
abolition