Chapter 14 Flashcards
The two groups main groups of immigrants were: all
1) Irish
2) German
Between 1840 and 1860 more that ____ immigrants came to the US.
4 million
The __ came fleeing starvation due to a terrible __ famine.
Irish, Potato
The __ usually arrived with money and bought farm land in the __.
Germans, mid west
The Germans brought over the tradition of the __.
Christmas Tree
The ones who opposed immigration were called __.
nativists
The nativists formed a political party to try and limit immigration called the __.
Know nothing party
city life was hard for four reasons: all
1) unpaved roads
2) animals wondered all over
3) it was unsanitary
4) they had no water system
the __ was a social and economic level between the wealthy and poor.
middle class
Three things began to grow in cities: all
1) libraries
2) clubs
3) theaters
a __ were poorly designed housing structures that were dirty, overcrowded, and unsafe.
tenements
__ was a belief system in which followers thought they could rise above material things in life.
transcendentalism
__ was a minister who thought you should be guided by your inner light.
emerson
__ most famous essay was self reliance
emerson
__ wrote women in the nineteenth century which was a book about women’s basic rights.
Margaret fuller
__ believed people should act by their own idea of right and wrong.
henry David Thoreau
__ refused to obey unjust laws.
henry David Thoreau
__ hoped to form a perfect society .
utopian communities
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the __.
Scarlett Letter
__ wrote mystery stories and poetry.
Edgar Allen Poe
herman Melville wrote __.
Moby Dick
__ who wrote poems such as leaves of grass.
walt Whitman
__ was one of the leaders of the second great awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
__ was aimed at limiting alcohol consumption
temperance movement
in __ the first economic convention of the __ was held.
1836, American Temperance Union
In __ __ banned the sell of liquor.
1846, Maine
Prison conditions were bad for three reasons: list 2
1) filthy
2) they were overcrowded
3) the young and the old were housed together
__ insisted that prisoners needed rehabilitation
Dorthea Dix
__ founded the Perkins institute for the blind in the 1830s in __.
Samuel Howe, boston
__ started the first american school for deaf children in __.
Thomas Gallaudet, Hartford Connecticut
The __ stated all children regardless of background would be taught in a common place.
Common School Movement
__ led the common school movement.
Horace Mann
__ also began to set up normal schools for educating teachers.
Horace Mann
__ opened an all female academy in Connecticut.
Catherine Beecher
__ in Macon, ga was the first American womens college opened in __.
wesleyan College , 1836
The __ was founded by Richard Allen.
Free African Religious Society
The Free african religious soc. pushed for __ and __.
equality, education
In __ __ in Ohio became the fist college people to admit __.
1835, oberlin college, african americans
in 1817 __ was formed.
the american colonization soc.
the am. colonization soc. bought a strip of land in west africa called __.
Liberia
__ was a place where free black people could settle.
liberia
__ ran an abolitionist newspaper called the Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
__ and __ were two sister form a slave holding family who wrote pamphlets and a book to try to convince other white people to join the fight against slavery.
Angelina, Sarah grimke
__ was an escaped slave who published a newspaper in the north.
Fredrick Douglass
__ was famous for her anti-slavery speeches.
sougjourner truth
the __ was the name given to a loosly knit group of white and black abolitionists who helped escaped slaves get to the north to be free.
Underground Railroad
__ led escaping slaves to __ which were homes of people secretly storing runaways.
Conductors, Stations
the most famous conductor was __.
Harriet Tubman
__ and __ organized a womens rights convention at __>
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton, Seneca Falls New York
The __ stated all men and women were created equal. women have been denied all rights that belong to them as citizens of the US.
Declaration of Sentiments
__ argued men and women should be paid the same if they are performing the same job.
Susan B. Anthony
