Chapter 14 Study Guide

1. 8th Grade Chapter 14 Study Guide

2. 1. What was the goal of the American Anti-Slavery society? The goal of the American Anti-Slavery society was the immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans.

3. 2. How did Dorothea Dix help to reform prisons? Dorothea Dix spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill.

4. 3. Why did Sarah Grimke never get married? Sarah Grimke never got married because the laws of the day gave husbands complete control over the wife’s property.

5. 4. Why did most German immigrants move to the U.S.? Most German immigrants moved to the U.S. for economic opportunity and freedom from government control.

6. 5. What did Harriet Tubman do to help the Anti-Slavery movement? Harriet Tubman was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and she led many fugitive slaves to freedom.

7. 6. What caused millions of Irish to move to the U.S.? Irish Immigrants moved to the U.S. mainly because of the potato blight. (disease)

8. 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dickinson were all what? They were all writers during the Romantic Period.

9. 8. How did women’s work in reform movements help gain support for the women’s rights movement? The Women’s work in the reform movement attracted men and women’s movement.

10. What did Fredrick Douglas Consider a blessing in his From Slavery to Freedom autobiography? Page 456 • In the quote “Theblessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common… the Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice. I must mourn.” • Blessings means freedom and independence

11. What was the main idea of Sojourner Truth’s speech given at a women’s rights convention in 1851? Page 462 • “That man over here says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place… Look at me! I have ploughed and planted and … no man could head (outwork me). And aint’ I a woman?” • The main idea of the speech is women should not be thought of as the weaker sex and they deserve equality.

12. What does this quotation by Patrick Dunnyexpress?page 439 • “People that cuts a great dash (style) at home… think it strange (in the U.S.) for the humble class of people to get as much respect as themselves.” • The quotation expresses the new feeling of equality immigrants enjoyed in the United States.

13. 9. How did William Lloyd Garrison spread the abolitionist message? Garrison published an antislavery newspaper called the Liberator.

14. 10. How did Thomas Gallaudet change education? A result of Gallaudet’s contribution to education was free American schools for the deaf and those with hearing-impairments.

15. 11. What were common characteristics of U.S. cities in the mid-1800’s? In the mid-1800’s most American cities commonly found criminal activity.

16. 12. Why did some women oppose the equality rights movement? Women use the argument that women and men were different rather than unequal.

17. 13. Who usually lived in tenements? Immigrants usually lived in tenements.

18. 14. What was the 2nd Great Awakening? The Second Great Awakening was a period of Christian renewal that began in the northeastern United States.

19. 15. What did transcendentalist write about? Writings of transcendentalist thinkers often touched upon the theme of self –reliance.

20. 16. Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau were leaders of what group? Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau were all Transcendentalist Thinkers.

21. 17. What was the temperance movement? The temperance movement was a reform effort to urge people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor.

22. 18. Common School meant all children would do what? Members of the common-school movement believed that all children should learn a trade in school rather than study academic subjects.

23. 19. What influenced free African-American communities in the North? The Second Great Awakening and its spirit of reform.

24. 20. Why was the Seneca Falls Convention so important? The Seneca Falls Convention marked the start of the organized women’s rights movement.

25. 21. How did the women’s rights movement start? The women’s movement for equal rights was an offshoot of the abolitionist movement.

26. 22. What led to the start of the middle class in the 1800’s? The growth of industry and cities led to the emergence of the middle class.

27. 23. What was the Know-Nothing party all about? The Know-Nothing party supported immigration restrictions to protect the jobs and culture of native born Americans.

28. 24. How did Horace Mann change education? Horace Mann extended the length of the school year.

29. 25. What did reformers claim alcohol caused? Social Problems

30. 26. How did Elizabeth Cady Stanton get involved in the women’s rights movement? Stanton attended the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London England while on her honeymoon. She discovered that only men could participate, and women had to sit behind a curtain.

31. 27. Where did the Second Great Awakening occur? The Second Great Awakening began in upstate New York and throughout the frontier regions of Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and South Carolina.

32. 29. How did the Anti-Slavery movement effect women? The Anti-Slavery movement inspired women to join together to begin the women’s rights movement.

33. Essay 1. How did the rise of industry and the growth of cities affect social classes in America in the mid-1800’s? The rise of industry and the growth of cities in America led to the establishment of a new social class – the middle class. The middle class was a social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor.

34. Essay 2. what was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention? The Seneca Falls Convention was the first public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States. It brought the women’s rights movement to the attention of many groups in the United States.