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Chapter 14-15
Chapter 14-15 Review Materials socialstudieswithasmile.com mrdowling24
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Inventor of the steel plow | John Deere |
| Inventor of the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| Telegraph | allowed information to be relayed immediately over hundreds or thousands of miles invented by Samuel Morse used a system of dashes and dots to send messages over wires (Morse Code) |
| Railroad Boom | increase in railroads in the United States (especially in the north) used to transport goods faster and cheaper |
| Dangers of railroads | fires, crashes, derailments |
| push factor | reasons why a person would leave his home land bad things about where you live that makes you want to leave |
| pull factor | positive aspects of a new place that make you want to move there things that attract you to a new place |
| What were the two main immigrant groups to the US in the mid-1800s? | Germans and Irish |
| Examples of push factors | war, famine, religious persecution |
| Examples of pull factors | freedom of religion, land, economic opportunities |
| Nativists | people who believed the US should only benefit American born citizens and not immigrants |
| Know-Nothing Party | also known as the American Party believed that America should be for Americans anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic |
| How did nativists feel about immigrants? Why? | Nativists did not like immigrants. They believed they were criminals, drunks, would steal Americans' jobs, etc. |
| slave codes | laws that controlled behavior of slaves and denied them basic rights |
| Examples of Slave Codes | 1. Denied the right to vote 2. Denied the right to a trial by jury 3. Could not testify against whites 4. Children could not attend public schools 5. Had to carry passes to prove that they were free 6. Could not gather without a white person |
| abolitionist | a person who wants to end slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | "Black Moses" conductor on the Underground Railroad helped bring runaway slaves to the North |
| Underground Railroad | helped runaway slaves escape to the north using a system or hiding spots |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Publisher of the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave-wrote an autobiography that described how it felt to be a slave published an anti-slavery newspaper |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke | Daughters of a South Carolina slaverholder gave speeches against slavery |
| Sojourner Truth | Fled from her owners, freed by Quakers in the North spoke out against slavery also involved in the women's rights movement |
| American Colonization Society | group organized to send freed slaves back to Africa created Liberia very few African Americans went back to Africa |
| Seneca Falls Convention | women's rights convention organized to get more rights for women in government, education and religion primary goal was the right to vote |
| Leading women's rights leaders | Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott |
| How did the women's rights movement come out of the abolitionist movement? | Women involved in the abolitionist movement realized that they were denied basic rights even when trying to help other groups get rights. They then began to fight for more rights for themselves |
| The Declaration of Sentiments of Women | document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, which called for more rights for women |
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