Questions Module 16 Lesson 1, 2, & 3 Flashcards
Between 1840 and 1860, 4 million immigrants were they mostly from? Where were 3 million from?
Europe
Ireland and Germany
What caused all of the Irish immigrants to go to the United states?
Because of the potato famine in the 1840s
Where did many Irish family’s settle?
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and/or Pennsylvania
What did many Irish men and woman work in the United States?
- Men worked at unskilled jobs or by building canals and railroads.
- Women worked as domestic servants for wealthy families.
What are the different reasons Germans left Germany?
-Some educated Germans fled for political reasons.
-Most were working class and came for economic reasons.
-Many became farmers and lived in rural areas.
What were some jobs that Germans normal worked?
In cities they had to take low-paying jobs, such as tailors, seamstresses, bricklayers, servants, clerks, and bakers.
Why did Native-born Americans not happy with new immigrants in the U.S.?
Many native-born Americans feared losing jobs to immigrants who might work for lower wages.
What were most Americans before the new immigration(Religion)?
Protestants
Why did Citizens to America want to make the organization Know-Nothing Party?
To make it difficult for immigrants to become citizens or hold public office.
What did the Know-Nothing Party support or want for immigrants?
Wanted to keep Catholics and immigrants out of public office
Wanted immigrants to live in United States for 21 years before becoming citizens
Why did Americans mistrusted Catholic immigrants?
In Europe, Protestants and Catholics had a history of conflicts.
What Revolution led to new Creation of jobs in cities?
Industrial Revolution
What Revolution helped to connect cities and make movement easier?
Transportation Revolution
What were some jobs that were considered middle class?
Merchants, manufacturers, professionals, and master craftspeople
What time led to Cities packed with crowds?
when people found entertainment and enriched cultural life in cities.
Where did many immigrants live?
In tenements
How were the public services of cities?
Public services were poor
-No clean water
-Public health regulations,
-No healthful ways to get rid of garbage
Because of all the immigrants and all of the people what was happening?
-Cities became centers of criminal activity, and most had no organized police force.
-Fire was a constant and serious danger in crowded cities.
Who were three important transcendentalists?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau
Some Transcendentalists tried to create society’s called utopian communities where is one place Transcendentalists created one?
Brook Farm, Massachusetts
What was the goal of making Utopian communities?
To create a perfect society
Did Utopian communities work?
Few Communities lasted long
What inspired painters and writers?
Simple life and nature
What country began Romanticism?
Europe
What did Romantic artists celebrate and paint?
Their works celebrated the beauty and wonder of nature in the United States.
Their images contrasted with the huge cities and corruption of nature that many Americans saw as typical of Europe.
Where did the Second Great Awakening spread to?
Swept upstate New York and frontier regions and later spread to New England and the South.
Who believed that each person was responsible for own salvation and should prove faith by doing good works?
Charles Grandison Finney
Where was Lyman Beecher a minister at?
Boston
What increased because of the Second Great Awakening?
Church memberships
What were the thoughts behind the Temperance Movement that made people start it?
Many Americans thought alcohol abuse caused family violence, poverty, and criminal behavior.
What are somethings that reform movements tried to stop?
They tackled alcohol abuse, prison and education reform, and slavery.
Who mainly led the reform movements?
Members of the middle class, especially women, led the efforts.
What was Dorothea Dix reform about?
Reform prison system.
What did reformers work to for Dorothea Dix’s prison movement
Reformers worked to remove the mentally ill, runaway children, and orphans from prisons.
How did the government respond for Dorothea Dix’s prison movement?
Governments responded by building mental hospitals, reform schools for children, and houses of correction that provided education for prisoners.
What was education in the early 1800s like?
-Few teachers were trained.
-Schoolhouses were small and had only one room for all students.
-Social background and wealth affected education quality.
What did Common-school movement reformers want for schools?
Wanted all children taught in a common place regardless of wealth.
What did Horace Mann do?
-Became Massachusetts’s first secretary of education.
-Convinced the state to double the school budget, raise teacher’s salaries, lengthen the school year
-Begin the first school for teacher training.
Education reform created opportunities for who?
woman
What did Education reformers also helped who?
People with special needs
What two schools did Thomas Gallaudet open?
-Opened a school for the hearing impaired
-A school for the blind opened
Where did African Americans usually lived?
Free African Americans usually lived in segregated, or separate, communities in the North.
In what three states opened elementary schools for African American children?
New York, Philadelphia, and Boston opened elementary schools for African American children.
Did colleges allow for African Americans to go to college?
Few allowed it
Why could African Americans in the South not go to school?
Laws barred most enslaved people from receiving any education.
What college was the first college to let African Americans in?
Oberling College
What did critics want woman to do?
To not leave traditional female roles
What led to women abolitions to fight for there own rights?
Fighting for African American rights
What did women find out they had to do while they were fighting for women’s rights?
They found out that they have to fight for the right to speech
Who refused to promise to obey her husband during their marriage ceremony?
Angelina Grimke
What did Sojourner Truth support?
Abolition and women’s rights
Why did Sojourner Truth chose the name Sojourner Truth?
Because she felt her mission was to be a sojourner, or traveler, and spread the truth
What happened as woman’s rights keep getting more and more out there?
Men also began to fight for woman’s rights
What did some people think of woman and that’s why they don’t agree with woman’s rights?
Some people thought that women lacked the physical or mental strength to survive without men’s protection.
Did all woman support womans rights?
Some women believed that they did not need new rights
What was the convention was the first public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States?
Seneca Falls Convention.
Where was the Seneca Falls Convention held?
Seneca Falls, New York
What happened during the Seneca Falls Convention?
Organizers wrote a Declaration of Sentiments.
What did the Declaration of Sentiments do or say?
-Used The Declaration of Independence as basis for language
-Another’s included 18 charges against men
Different reformers attended the Seneca Falls Convention who is one example?
Frederick Douglass
