Chapter 13 - The Changing American Identity

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How did immigration between 1840 and 1870 affect the U.S. population?

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It increased the U.S. population by 2.5 million.

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Which group did some native-born Americans fear would start a revolution in the United States? Options: Irish, British, Chinese, Germans

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Irish

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How did some U.S. politicians respond to an immigration increase?

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They proposed laws that favored native-born Americans over immigrants.

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When did Prudence Crandall found the Canterbury School for African-American girls in Connecticut?

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1831

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How were craft unions different from labor unions?

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Craft union members had specialized skills.

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Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

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Harriet Jacobs

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Why were the Grimké sisters eyewitnesses to the cruelties of slavery?

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They saw how enslaved people were treated on their family’s plantation.

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When did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organize the Seneca Falls Convention?

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1848

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What right did single women have that married women did not? Options: the right to vote, the right to free speech, the right to own property, the right to wages equal to those of men

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the right to own property

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Immigrants went to live in cities and they worked for low wages. These were ways that..

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Immigration changed American life in the early 1900's