Vocab Module 16 Lesson 1, 2, & 3

Question 1

People who opposed immigrant

Answer 1

Nativists

Question 2

Political organization founded by nativist in 1849?

Answer 2

Know-Nothing Party

Question 3

A social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor

Answer 3

Middle Class

Question 4

Dirty, unsafe housing structures in which the cities’ poor were forced to live

Answer 4

Trenements

Question 5

Belief that people should rise above material things in life and that people should depend on themselves rather than outside authority

Answer 5

Transcendentalism

Question 6

American writer most famous for his essay “Self-Reliance”

Answer 6

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 7

American writer who wrote and edited material on transcendentalism

Answer 7

Margaret Fuller

Question 8

American writer most famous for the transcendental ideas he summarized in his book Walden

Answer 8

Henry David Thoreau

Question 9

Experimental communities that tried to create a prefect Society.

Answer 9

Utopian Communities

Question 10

American writer best known for his short stories and poetry

Answer 10

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 11

American poet whose poems were published after her death

Answer 11

Emily Dickinson

Question 12

Late 1700s-early 1800s a movement of Christ renewal

Answer 12

Second Great Awakening

Question 13

Minister who spoke against both Charls Grandison Finney and alcohol consumption

Answer 13

Lyman Beecher

Question 14

Movement to encourage people not to drink alcohol

Answer 14

Temperance Movement

Question 15

Prison reformer

Answer 15

Dorothea Dix

Question 16

Movement to have all children, regardless of background, taught in a common place

Answer 16

Common-school movement

Question 17

Education reformer

Answer 17

Horace Mann

Question 18

Founder of all-female academy in Hartford Connecticut

Answer 18

Catharine Beecher

Question 19

Education reformer for the hearing impaired

Answer 19

Thomas Gallaudet

Question 20

Supporter of woman’s rights who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention; co-founder of Womens Suffrage Association

Answer 20

Elizabeth Cady Stantion

Question 21

The first organized public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States

Answer 21

Seneca Falls Convention

Question 22

Document officially requesting equal rights for women

Answer 22

Declaration of Sentiments

Question 23

Spokesperson for the Anti-Slavery Society and the women’s rights movement; co-founder if Women’s Suffrage Association

Answer 23

Lucy Stone

Question 24

Women’s rights supporter who argued for equal pay for equal work, the right of women to enter male professions, and property rights

Answer 24

Susan B. Anthnoy

Question 25

Co-founder of National Woman Suffrage Association; writer and advocate for women’s rights

Answer 25

Matilda Joslyn Gage