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American Reformers
8thGradeHistory VRMS Ch 14
| 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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