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What led to the flood of Irish immigrants entering the US in the mid 1840s? |
economic or political troubles |
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What did the Know-Nothing Party support? |
Measures making it difficult for foreigners to become citizens or hold office |
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The majority of German immigrants who came to the US in the 1840s came because the US had what? |
More land available |
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What led to the emergence of the middle class during the 1800s |
those who owned their own businesses or worked in skilled jobs benefited from the growth of the cities and make up a growing soical class |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Fuller Henry David Thoreau were all what |
transcendentalist |
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in the mid 1800s which city dwellers most commonly lived in tenements |
immigrants |
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what did most cities rely on to fight crime in the mid 1800 |
volunteer night watches |
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During the mid 1800s the rate at which a city grew was closely linked to what |
industrial and transportation revolution |
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why did the Utopian communities founded in the early a1800s form |
people wanted abstract spirityality and cooperative lifestyles |
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the writing of transcendentalist thinkers often touched upon which theme |
about rising above material things in life |
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walt whitman wrote simple unrhymed poetry that expressed the importance of which American values |
patritism |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson had what in common |
they were all very famous poets in the 1800s |
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In the late 18th century America, the second great awakening was a period of what |
religious christian renewal |
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What new idea did religious leader charles grandison finney express |
each individual was repondsible for his or her own salvation |
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Temperance movement |
a reform effort that urged people to use self discipline to stop drinking hard liquor |
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what did reformer Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement |
stood up for the mentally ill people that were frequently jailed with criminals |
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What cotributions did Horace Mann make to the education reform movement in the 19 century |
was the leader of the common school movement and convinced the state to double school budgets and raise teacher's salaries he lengthened the school year |
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What contribution did Thomas Gallaudet make in education |
improved education and lives of people with hearing impairments |
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What did Catherine Beecher do to reform education in the US |
started an all female academy in Hartford Connecticut |
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What did the education reform movement bring about for free african americans |
the New York African Free School in NYC educated hundreds of childern in that time |
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What did William Lloyd Garrison do to spread the abolitionist message throughout the US |
punlished the Liberator an abolitionist newspaper, he helped the American Anti-Slavery Society |
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What was Angelina and Sarah Frimte's contribution to the abolitionist movement |
they protested that women had a moral duty to lead the antislavery movement; they wrote a book called American Slavery as it is and this book was one of the most important works of its time |
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what was he goal of the American anti slavery Society |
its members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans |
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What contribution did Harriet Tubman make to the antislavery movement |
underground railroad and taking hundreds of slaves to freedom |
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What did the federal goverment do to block the abolition movement's progress |
they used what was called a gag rule that forbade US congress members from discussing the anti slavery movement |
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What effect did Nat Turner;s Rebellion of 1831 have on the southern socirty |
people talked more openly about slavery and how it was affecting socirty |
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The women;s movement for equal rights was an offshoot of what movemtn |
the anti slavery movement |
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Why did Sarah Grimke decide never to get married |
Because the laws of the day gave a husband complete control over his wife's property and she feared becoming a slave |
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what were women not allowed to do in the 1800s |
own property vote keep their paycheck divorce their husbands get a good education |
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what agrument did some women make against the movement for equal rights |
they said women were different from men not unequal |
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what right did Susan B Anthony win for womens in NY in 1860 |
she won the right for women to have ownership of their wages and peoperty |
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Why was the Seneca Falls COnvention in 1848 significant |
it was the first public meeting about women's rights held in the US |
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how did the world's antislavery convention affect the women's rights movement |
the women had to sit behind curtain and could not participate in the convention and it angered the females and some of the men like WIlliam Lloyd Garrison who sat with the women in protestq |
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where was the first public meeting about women's rights in the US held |
Senecca Falls NY |
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Upon what document was the Declaration of Sentiments based |
declaration of Independence |
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Susan B Anthony stated that no women could ever be free unless she controlled what |
her own purse |
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anti suffragist |
people that were for women's rights |
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Who founded an organization supporting women voting based on the idea women's rigts were as important as abolition |
Lucretia Mott |
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What religious group supported educating African Americans in Philadelphia because they believed in equality |
quakers |
