chapter 6 lesson 2

Question 1

Who were the two largest immigrant groups between 1815 and 1860?

Answer 1

Irish and Germans

Question 2

What were Irish immigrants like?

Answer 2

• left bc potato famine
• usually poor
• settled in northeast
• worked as unskilled laborers

Question 3

What were German immigrants like?

Answer 3

• modestly wealthy
• settled in midwest
• farmed and ran small businesses

Question 4

This is a feeling of hostility toward foreign born people and a defense of native born people.

Answer 4

Nativism

Question 5

What did Nativism groups want to accomplish?

Answer 5

laws banning immigrants and Catholics (for whatever reason) from holding public office

Question 6

This event promoted belief that all people could attain grace by readmitting God and Christ. This event rejected Calvinist ideas of predestination.

Answer 6

Second Great Awakening

Question 7

This person was the main leader of the Second Great Awakening. He founded modern revivalism and focused on using as much emotion as possible.

Answer 7

Charles Grandison Finney

Question 8

This group of people rejected the idea that Jesus was the son of God and rather saw him as a great leader.

Answer 8

Unitarians

Question 9

This group of people believed in universal salvation of souls. They rejected hell and believed that God will save all.

Answer 9

Universalists

Question 10

This person founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He claimed he’d been called to restore Christian churches to original form and said that an angel sent him plates telling of the coming of god and need to build a kingdom.

Answer 10

Joseph Smith

Question 11

What were followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints called?

Answer 11

Mormons

Question 12

Why were mormons persecuted?

Answer 12

they practiced in secrecy

Question 13

This person led the Mormons on the largest single group migration to Utah (Salt Lake City) where Mormons set up permanent roots.

Answer 13

Brigham Young

Question 14

This is an idea of a perfect society.

Answer 14

utopia

Question 15

This attempt of a utopia in Massachusetts concentrated on equality and failed due to not enough people working.

Answer 15

Brook Farm

Question 16

This attempt of a utopia rejected the idea that God had a gender and got its new members from conversions. This failed because they all practiced celibacy.

Answer 16

Shakers

Question 17

This was a movement that focused on feelings and inner spirituality.

Answer 17

Romanticism

Question 18

This was a movement that urged people to overcome mental limits and release their souls to embrace the beauty of the universe.

Answer 18

Transcendentalism

Question 19

This person advocated fulfillment found in communion with nature. Their most famous work is “Nature.”

Answer 19

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 20

This person believed individuals had to fight the pressure to conform. Their most famous work is “Walden’s Pond.”

Answer 20

Henry David Thoreau

Question 21

This person wrote “Last of the Mochicans.”

Answer 21

James Fennimore Cooper

Question 22

This person wrote “The Scarlet Letter.”

Answer 22

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 23

This person wrote “The Raven.”

Answer 23

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 24

This person wrote “Because I Could Not Stop For Death.”

Answer 24

Emily Dickinson

Question 25

This was the publishing of cheap newspapers catered to average people rather than mostly well-educated readers.

Answer 25

Penny Press