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Reetz Gr 8 Ch 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nativists | U.S. Citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them |
| Middle Class | The social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor |
| Tenements | Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived |
| Implicit | understood though no clearly put into words |
| Transcendentalism | the idea that people could rise above the material things in life; a popular movement among New England writers and thinkers in the mid-1800s |
| Utopian Communities | Places where people worked to establish a perfect society; such communities were popular in the United States during the late 1700s and the early to mid-1800s |
| Abstract | Expressing a quality or idea without reference to an actual thing |
| Temperance Movement | A social reform effort that begun in the mid-1800s to encourage people to drink less alcohol |
| Common-School Movement | a social reform effort that began in the mid-1800s and promoted the idea of having all children educated in a common place regardless of social class or background |
| Abolition | an end to slavery |
| Why did many Irish immigrate to the United States? | To get away from the potato famine |
| What is Romanticism? | a rejection of many established rules, an emphasis on individual expression, and a great interest in nature |
| What was the Second Great Awakening? | a movement in which there was a renewed interest in religion |
| What was the Seneca Falls Convention? | the first public meeting about Women's rights held in the United States |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton was leader and founder of which association? | National Women's Suffrage Association |
| What was the Declaration of Sentiments? | detailed 18 charges of social injustices by men towards women |
| What did the Grimke sisters do? | They wrote American Slavery As It Is, argued for equal educational opportunities, and demanded equal pay for equal work |
| What was the Underground Railroad? | slaves traveled at night, people that led the slaves were known as conductors, and some slaves escaped to Canada |
| What caused the Know-Nothing Party to fall apart? | disagreements over the issue of slavery |
| What formed because of overcrowding and poor conditions in prisons? | reformers created houses of correction |
| Who was the leader of the common-school movement? | Horace Mann |
| Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| What caused the challenges in cities during the mid-1800s? | rapid-growth |
| Name 4 hardships cities faced in the mid-1800s. | lack of safe housing, poor public services, disease, criminal activity, and fires |
| How did Sojourner Truth get her name? | Sojourner means traveler Truth because she spread truth |
| Who was Dorothea Dix? | got facilities built for the menatally ill |
| What is the gag rule? | It violated the First Amendment but the government used it anyway |
| What did Susan B. Anthony believe about women in the work force? | equal pay for equal work |
| Describe Irish immigrants. | many were unskilled and poor |
| what was Charles Grandison Finney's belief on sin? | sin was avoidable |
| What was William Lloyd Garrison's view on slavery? | opposed slavery |
| What was Frederick Douglas's view on abolitionists? | he spoke out for abolitionists |
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