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This reform was opposed to drinking alcohol
What is Temperance?
100
This songwriter wrote many American classics.
Who is Stephen C. Foster?
100
This caused Irish immigrants to flee to the United States.
What is the Irish Potato Famine? (the blight)
100
In the 1800s, American this became more popular, replacing a reliance on that of Europe.
What is literature?
100
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary” begins this now-classic poem written in 1845.
What is The Raven?
200
This view favors people born in a country over immigrants to that country.
What is nativism?
200
This woman fought for the reform of psychological patients.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
It wasn’t until this happened that the work of many American poets became popular.
What is the poet's death?
200
This kind of culture developed in cities as a result of mass immigration from various countries.
What is neighborhoods of immigrants from various countries developing in the cities?
200
Bloomers” were named after this woman
Who is Mrs. Amelia Bloomer. She wore hers under short skirts instead of long skirts like everybody else. It was scandalous!
300
This school of thought, concerning the nature of knowledge, was practiced by Emerson and Thoreau.
What is transcendentalism?
300
The self-titled “Manual” by this scientist is the definitive textbook on northern plant life.
Who is Asa Gray?
300
Joseph Henry’s experimentation allowed for this invention later.
What is the telegraph?
300
These problems were faced by anti-slavery and abolition movements.
What is elocation and employment for former slaves
300
This classic book, dealing largely with themes of Puritanism, is said to be Hawthorne’s magnum opus.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
400
This is a community where people live and work together using shared resources.
What is a commune?
400
She opened one of the first schools for women in Troy, New York (Troy Female Seminary).
Who is Emma Willard?
400
In this year William Lloyd Garrison founded the abolitionist newspaper
When was 1831?
400
Public education in America led to an increase in success in this field.
What is science?
400
This was the total population of inhabitants in 1790 in the U.S?
What is less than 4 million?
500
Paintings of a particular region were commonplace in this movement.
What is the Hudson Valley Movement
500
He became the first secretary of the MA board of education in 1837 and set the school year to 6 months and offered a variety of classes.
Who is Horace Mann?
500
This religious movement was founded in the Mid-1800s.
What is The Seventh Day Adventist Church?
500
run-down buildings, little to no light, poor ventilation, and even poorer sewage systems were characteristics of this.
What is city life?
500
This newspaper was abolitionist.
What is The Liberator?