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Chapter 13-14 SMO
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| City with the largest influx of immigrants in early 19th century | NYC |
| Push factors for Irish immigration | Potato famine, British owning most of the land, disease |
| Anti-Irish sentiments | illiterate Catholic Irish peasants, "no Irish need apply," got drunk |
| Push factors for Germans | William Penn, potato famine, needing work in America |
| Targets of violence in early 19th century | Catholics and free blacks |
| Early trade unions had three main concerns | Wages, working conditions, working hours |
| Tammany Hall | In NYC: ensure votes by going to immigrants and giving them hospitality to get their votes |
| Three main characteristics of reform movements | moralistic reform because small-scale local relief wasn't adequate; belief in basic goodness of nature; moralistic dogmatism (reformers knowing they're always right and had improvements enacted) |
| Ragged schools | tax-supported primary schools that were scarce and poor quality |
| Horace Mann | led education reform, first secretary of of MA board of education, doubled teachers' salaries |
| Catharine Beecher | advocate for German school model and for kindergarten, learn through play |
| First college to accept black men and white women | Oberlin |
| Cold Water Army | children's club for temperance |
| Neal S. Dow of Maine | Father of Prohibition; Maine Law of 1851 which prohibited making liquor in Maine |
| Dorothea Dix | led to establishment of asylums for the insane |
| Communitarian/Utopian | believed in social harmony and were experimental, no violence |
| Robert Owen 1825 | New Harmony, Indiana: had Owenites who believed society should have equal materials, anti-religious, good education program, failed after 2 years |
| Brook Farm 1841 | based on Phalanxes, George Ripley, failed |
| Oneida Community | complex marriage for everyone to be married to each other, John Humphrey Noyes, sexual freedom, perfectionism |
| Shakers 1774 | "hands to work, hearts to God," Mother Ann Lee, celibacy, bear trap monopoly |
| Mormons | Joseph Smith, first true Protestant-Christian religion, fastest growing TODAY, no polygamy |
| Why were the Mormons hated? | they had economic success |
| Joseph Smith's fate | killed by a mob while running for president in 1844 |
| Mormon migration path | NY to Utah |
| Three groups who were active abolitionists | free blacks, Quakers, militant white reformers |
| Sojourner Truth | free female black, first black woman to win court case over white, counted tales of slave horrors |
| Theodore Weld | "American Slavery as it is" provided graphic details of slave accounts |
| American Antislavery Society | The Tappan Brothers; meeting place burned and robbed |
| JQA and the Amistad | JQA freed 53 slaves on the Spanish Amistad ship even though they were arrested |
| Liberty Party 1840 | first antislavery party, chose James G. Birney as candidate |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott | Seneca Falls Convention, women reformers |
| Susan B. Anthony | wrote 19th amendment |
| Declaration of Sentiments | at seneca falls, man = woman |
| Five points neighborhood | NY's worst slum with criminals and notorious gangs |
| Millerites (William Miller) | believed 2nd coming of Christ on 10/22/1843; revised it with 7th day adventist |
| Commodity that attracted Americans to northern Louisiana territory | fur |
| John C. Fremont | mapped overland trails to Oregon and California |
| Great Plains also referred to as | Indo-Gangetic Plains |
| Indian territory states | Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma |
| Who coined term "manifest destiny" and where did it first appear? | John O'Sullivan; Democratic Review newspaper |
| "to see the elephant" | desire to see the unknown |
| James K. Polk and "54 40 or fight!" | Polk said the US would go to war if he didn't get all the land below Canada |