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The Young Nation-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A large population of people from Ireland left in what year? | In the 1840s |
| What forced millions of Irish people to immigrate to New York and Boston? | The Irish Potato Famine |
| What type of jobs did these Irish people take when they arrived at New York or Boston? | Servants, Factory workers, Railroads workers, & Building canals |
| What other group of people immigrated from Europe because of problems with their new government? | Germans |
| Many German immigrates came to towns to work as factory workers, what places did they go? | Chicago, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati |
| In the south, the demand for cotton was great for particular items? | Clothes and thread |
| In 1792, who invented the cotton gin to clean cotton loads in one day? | Eli Whitney |
| This was a great invention for who, but extremely harsh for what the that had to do the hard manual labor work in the fields? | Landowners Slave labor |
| In what year did slave transport was finally stopped in America? | By 1808 |
| What movement developed in the North that was trying to stop the cruel and inhumanity of slavery in the South? | Abolitionist Movement |
| Who was the abolitionist that gave speeches that the cruelty of slave and the sin of owning other people? | Sojourner Truth |
| Who was the abolitionist that gave speeches about slavery being wrong and help escaped slaves in the North? | Fredrick Douglass |
| Who was the White abolitionist that wrote an anti-slavery newspaper called in Boston in 1831? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| What was the name of the Anti-Slavery newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison wrote in the North? | “The Liberator” |
| What were the 2 main reasons abolitionist fought hard for African American freedom? | African slaves were were denied equality because of slavery and discrimination |
| What was another form of discrimination that was occurring in America? | Discrimination against women |
| What were men discriminating on women in America? | Women had no rights in owning property, Going to college, or Having descent wages from the jobs they had. |
| Many women for the rights of women in America, what were they? | Women’s rights in better wages, Working conditions and College courses |
| Many women were abolitionists for women’s rights, who were they? | Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| The people involved in an important convention began the Women’s Right Movement in the United States of America, what was it called? | Seneca Falls Convention |
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