Vocabulary
The reform movement during the 19th century that sought to ban the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
During the Industrial Revolution, this system helped connect many states and increased the transportation of raw materials needed for production.
What is railroads?
This American inventor created the Cotton Gin in 1793 which made the processing of cotton much easier and increased the demand for enslaved labor.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This famous abolitionist helped hundreds of enslaved African Americans escape to the north after escaping from slavery herself.
This reformer led the education reform movement in Massachusetts and pioneered the modern public school system by investing in teacher preparation programs.
Who is Horace Mann?
An individual who wanted to limit immigration and protect the interests of native-born citizens.
What is a Nativist?
This group of laborers had less success in bargaining for better working conditions because they were easily replaceable.
Who is unskilled laborers?
Northern factory owners, investment bankers, and merchants indirectly supported the institution of slavery for this reason.
What is a dependence on cotton for textiles and other cash crops?
This religious group opposed slavery for religious reasons and is credited as establishing the Underground Railroad.
Who is the Quakers?
This religious movement helped encourage people to improve society and question authority figures by advocating for a personal relationship with God.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
An organization that wanted to end slavery by sending freed African Americans to independent colonies in Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
A majority of immigrants who came to the United States during the 19th century came from these two countries.
Something that is grown for sale, not personal use or consumption.
What is cash crop (cotton, tobacco, indigo, etc)
The Underground Railroad helped thousands of enslaved African Americans to freedom. The guides who aided in the journey north were given this title to help disguise their role in the escape process.
What is conductor?
This African American women's rights leader and abolitionist questioned gender stereotypes with her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The growth of cities as people move from rural areas to urban centers primarily for employment opportunities.
What is Urbanization?
During the 19th century, this Nativist political party opposed immigrants and Catholics because they feared they would take American jobs.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
The 1% of slave owning society in the South who occupied positions of power and influence.
What is the "Cottonocracy"?
Frederick Douglass was a brilliant speaker, journalist, and writer who titled his famous autobiography this.
What is The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave?
Helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Citizens who worked for the Underground Railroad and refused to obey unjust laws.
What is Civil Disobedience?
In an effort to promote better working conditions and pay, skilled laborers formed these groups.
What is trade unions?
Despite what out-of-date historical text may suggest, enslaved African Americans resisted their enslaved in a variety of ways. These three were the most common.
What is breaking tools, working slowly, and escaping?
These two African American journalist started the first African American newspaper known as Freedom's Journal.
Who was Samuel Cornish & John Russwurm?
In the 19th century Dorothea Dix worked to reform these two institutions in the United States after witness the issues firsthand.
What is prison and mental health institutions?