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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