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Reform/Road to CW
Reform and Immigration
Question | Answer |
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Irish Immigrants | largest group, pushed out by potato famine, settled in eastern cities, poor, catholic |
German Immigrants | pushed out by revolution, settled in the upper midwest, skilled laborers |
Scandinavia | Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway |
Scandinavian Immigrants | small group but settled together, upper midwest (Minnesota) pulled by land and opportunity |
Nativists | People who did not want immigrants, especially Irish |
Know-Nothing party | Nativist political party |
2 causes of Reform | Transcendentalism and Second Great Awakening |
Temperance | eliminate sale of alchohol |
Suffrage | right to vote (Woman's suffrage) |
Abolition | end slavery |
Utopian societies | groups trying to form ideal societies |
What did most reform movements have in common? | took place in the North/West, involved women, tried to improve society |
1848 | Date of Seneca Falls convention |
William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth | Abolitionists |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony | Woman suffragists |
Mother Lee, Shakers | Utopians |
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson | Transcendentalists |
Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann | Worked for prison and education reform |