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| What was happening in Ireland during the 1840’s which caused many Irish to come to the USA? |
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| A potato blight in Ireland that led to STARVATION AND DISEASE. |
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| The main religion of Irish immigrants |
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| Where did German immigrants in the USA settle during the mid-1800’s? |
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| losing their jobs to immigrants. |
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| Members of this party were nativists, anti-immigration – the members could not agree on the issue of slavery. |
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| What was happening in the USA during the mid-1800’s |
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| There were a lot of factory and industrial jobs in the Northeastern USA |
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| Poorly designed apartment buildings that housed large #’s of people |
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| Belief that people could rise above the material things in life. |
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| Wrote The Dial – Women in the 19th Century stated that women should be able to make independent choices about their lives. |
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| Who wrote Walden and what did it discuss |
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| Henry David Thoreau – suggested people shold follow their own beliefs and not the beliefs of others. |
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| Groups of people who try to form a perfect society |
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| Philosophy that emphasizes individual expression, nature, and rejection of established rules. |
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| What did Romanticist artists paint? |
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| Artists showed their appreciation for the beauty and wonder of nature. |
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| famous Nathaniel Hawthorne novel |
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| The Scarlet Letter and House of Seven Gables. |
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| Who was the author of Billy Budd and Moby Dick |
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| Who was the Romantic-era poet who wrote The Raven |
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| Who was the most famous U.S. poet during the mid-1800’s |
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Song of Hiawatha |
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| What were 2 themes in Walt Whitman’s writings? |
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| importance of individualism and democracy to American Society |
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| American Romantic Artists and Writers |
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- each person is capable of achieving greatness and success in life
- each person brings a unique view to the world and emotion should guide creativity
- Society is full of corruption and nature provides the only true safe haven in the world. |
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| Trancendentalists and Romatics |
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| agree that people should respect and admire the beauty of nature. |
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| Founder of the Hudson River School |
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| Define Second Great Awakening. |
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| Period of Christian renewal and revival |
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| Salvation is in the hands of the individual. |
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| 6. During the 2nd Great Awakening, did church membership grow or decline in the USA? |
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| Many African Americans became ministers and their churches spread across the Mid Atlantic States |
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| In what regions of the USA the 2nd Great Awakening begin? |
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| Northeastern United States |
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| Define temperance movement. |
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| Reform movement that set out to limit the consumption of alcohol in America. |
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| She spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill. |
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| Josiah Quincy was the Boston mayor who wanted separate punishment for child criminals. |
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| Horrace Mann was the leader of the Common School Movement |
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| Opened the USA’s first all female academy in Hartford Ct |
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| Opened the Perkins School for the Blind |
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| In 1817 he opened the first free school for the hearing impaired |
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| Led the Free African Religious |
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| Founder of the American Colonization Society |
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| Who was John Greenleaf Whittier? |
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| A famous American abolitionist poet and writer of literature |
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| What was the name of William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper? |
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| What was the American Anti-Slavery Society |
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| An escaped Slave who gave lectures for the American Anti-Slavery Society |
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| What was the name of Frederick Douglass’ newspaper? |
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| She believed that God had called her to travel/preach about slavery and womens rights. |
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| It was an escape route for slaves that led to the North and Canada |
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| The most famous and daring conductor of the underground railroad. |
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| the river many routes traveled on. |
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| What was 1 issue were often tied together for women in the mid-1800’s? |
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| The abolitionist movement |
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| When Angelina Grimke got married, what promise didn’t she make? |
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| Angelina Grimke married Theodore Weld and let her keep her property after the wedding. |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize the first women’s rights convention in the USA known as the Seneca Falls Convention. |
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| Declaration of Sentiments |
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| A document that detailed the rights and independence of women living in the USA |
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| What did Susan B. Anthony believe about pay for women? |
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| She believed in equal pay for equal work |
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| Angelina and Sara Grimke were |
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| Southerners who grew up in South Carolina – Abolitionists – wrote American Slavery As It Is |
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| Angelina and Sara Grimke were |
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| Southerners who grew up in South Carolina – Abolitionists – wrote American Slavery As It Is |
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