Ch 14

Question 1

germans

Answer 1

moved midwest; especially to milwaukee and wisconsin; few moved to texas; moved to w to grow oats; moved to milwaukee - catholic belief; texas - land was sold to immigrants

Question 2

irish

Answer 2

moved to new england, cities by ports, big cities (ny, boston); had little saving, most lived in port cities bc that is where their boats were docked, potato famine affected ireland

Question 3

scandinavians

Answer 3

moved midwest region of us, minnesota, wisconsin; settled bc felt like home, lakes, forests, and cold winters

Question 4

push factors (send out of country)

Answer 4

population growth
agricultural changes
crop failures
industrial revolution

Question 5

pull factors

Answer 5

freedom
economic opportunity
abundant land

Question 6

margaret fuller

Answer 6

new england transcendentalist; had magazine called The Dial; book called Woman in the Nineteenth century; argued for womens rights

Question 7

ralph waldo emerson

Answer 7

urged americans to cast off European influence and develop their own belief; transcendentalist

Question 8

walt whitman

Answer 8

published “Leaves of Grass” a book that changed american poetry; his bold unrhymed poems praised ordinary people broke w/tradition

Question 9

herman melville

Answer 9

wrote thrilling novels about his experience as a sailor; 1851 - wrote Moby Dick

Question 10

henry david thoreau

Answer 10

ralph waldo emerson’s student; believed in civil disobedience; transcendentalist

Question 11

edgar allan poe

Answer 11

wrote terrifying tales that influence today’s horror story writers; wrote 1st detective story (“The Murders in Rue Morgue”)

Question 12

nathaniel hawthorne

Answer 12

wrote The Scarlet Letter

Question 13

dorothea dix

Answer 13

plead with Massachusetts Legislature to improve care of mentally ill; travelled all over US on behalf of mentally ill; her efforts led to the building of 32 new hospitals

Question 14

horace mann

Answer 14

head of 1st state board of education

Question 15

susan b anthony

Answer 15

built womens movement into national organization

Question 16

angelina grimke

Answer 16

southerner that moved north and led abolitionist groups

Question 17

frederick douglass

Answer 17

spoke from his own experience of slavery; lecturer for massachusetts anti-slavery society; 1845 - published an autobiography that vividly narrated his experiences

Question 18

harriet tubman

Answer 18

conductor (person who led runaways to freedom) who made 19 dangerous journeys on the underground railroad to free slaves; she escaped slavery; had bounty of $40,000

Question 19

william garrison

Answer 19

published an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator; many people hated his views; 1834 - an angry mob dragged him to park to hang him; mayor saved him

Question 20

sojourner truth

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born as a slave and ran away from her owners to the Quaker family, who set her free; they helped her win the court battle to get her son back; spoke for abolition and drew in huge crowds

Question 21

david walker

Answer 21

free african american in boston; printed pamphlet “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”

Question 22

elizabeth stanton

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abolitionist; attended anti-slavery convention in london-wasn’t allowed in; demanded equality for women; held seneca falls convention

Question 23

sarah hale

Answer 23

editor of Ladies Magazine; believed women belonged in family ties (home)

Question 24

steerage

Answer 24

cheapest deck on ship to ride on

Question 25

penny papers

Answer 25

1830s - cheaper newsprint and invention of steam driven press lowered price of newspapers to a penny

Question 26

seneca falls convention

Answer 26

elizabeth stanton and lucretia mott held it; for womens rights; in seneca falls, ny, on July 19-20, 1848

Question 27

nativists

Answer 27

native born american who wanted to eliminate foreign influences

Question 28

transcendentalist

Answer 28

taught that spiritual world is more important than physical world

Question 29

know nothing party

Answer 29

started by nativists; wanted to ban catholics, would not allow foreign born to hold office, cut immigration to 21 yr wait to become US citizen

Question 30

labor union

Answer 30

group of workers who band together to seek better working conditions

Question 31

second great awakening

Answer 31

acted as a form of motivation to make things better in america

Question 32

underground railroad

Answer 32

an aboveground series of escape routes from south to north

Question 33

Washington Irving

Answer 33

Irving wrote some of the first stories to describe America

Question 34

asher durand

Answer 34

was a founder of the Hudson River school of painting. His best-known work, Kindred Spirits, was painted in 1849.

Question 35

thomas gallaudet

Answer 35

started the first American school for deaf children in 1817

Question 36

utopian examples

Answer 36

New Harmony, Indiana, and Brook Farm, Massachusetts

Question 37

Samuel G. Howe

Answer 37

founded the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston in the 1830s.

Question 38

emigrants

Answer 38

people who leave a country

Question 39

immigrants

Answer 39

people who settle in a new country

Question 40

education

Answer 40

In the 1830s, Americans also began to demand better schools. In 1837, Massachusetts set up the first state board of education in the United States. By 1850, many Northern states had opened public elementary schools.