| Question |
Answer |
| Which transcendentalist writer taught civil disobedience as a way to right the wrongs of the government? |
Henry David Thoureau. |
| What two women organized the Seneca Falls convention in New York |
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Which movement sought to ban the sale and use of all alcohol in the nation? |
Temperance |
| Which former slave spoke out against slavery and for women’s rights? |
Sojourner Truth |
| Who became the champion for better treatment of the mentally ill? |
Dorthea Dix |
| What was the organization that helped slaves form the south escape to the North to freedom? |
Underground Railroad |
| What country of a large immigrant group had a potato famine that wiped out a huge portion of their crops in the 1840s? |
Ireland (Irish) |
| What did Horace Mann call the “great equalizer’? |
Education |
| Many skilled immigrants came from the country______. |
Germany |
| She helped to insure that married women would have rights to their own property by fighting for a change in the law. |
Susan B. Anthony |
| Why was Harriet Tubman Famous? |
Conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| What did the women’s rights movement and the abolitionist movement have in common? |
Both fought for rights for people who were denied those rights. |
| Who had the least opportunity to receive a public education? |
African Americans |
| What was one specific pull factor for European immigrants to come to the United States? |
Abundant, cheap land |
| How were Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass similar? |
Both were abolitionists, public speakers, and former slaves. |
| Who published a dictionary that replaced British spellings with American? |
Noah Webster |
| What was one specific push factor to cause Europeans to leave their homeland? |
Political or religious persecution;famine;loss of work due to the Industrial Revolution. |
| Why did Irish immigrants tend to settle in cities? |
To find work in the port cities that they arrived in. |
| Why did some Americans oppose immigration? |
Nativists believed the nation's problems were caused by immigrants. |
| Why did Stanton and Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention? |
To promote women's rights. |
| What is a famine? |
Food shortage |
| Define suffrage. |
Right to vote |
| Who preached in the Eastern cities during the Second Great Awakening? |
Charles Finney |
| Which nativist political party was created during the mid 1800s? |
Know Nothings |
| What is a religious meeting meant to inspire change called? |
revival |
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