Unit 6 Review

Unit 6 Review

Susan B. Anthony

• One of the most important leaders fo the suffrage movement

• Raised in a Quaker family committed to social justice

• Active in the abolition, temperance and women's rights movement

• President of the National Women's Suffrage Movement

Multiple Choice

Susan B. Anthony was an active political leader and organizer who worked in support of--

• equal rights for immigrants and Native Americans

• women's suffrage and antislavery laws

• child labor laws and social security for the elder

• public education

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an example of free enterprise system?

• Maria owns her own jewelry company.

• The Monteverde Supply Company earns a profit from the sale of it's goods.

• Jayvonn, a store owner, signs a contract with another company.

• The Waco city government orders that certain stores be closed.

Free Enterprise System

An economic ($) system that in which there is minimal government control of the economy.

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE: The word SUFFRAGE means the right to vote.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Which of the following reformers was instrumental in improving public schools and education?

• Nat Turner

• Elizbeth Cady Stanton

• Horace Mann

• Dorothea Dix

Multiple Choice

How did Dorothea Dix significantly improve conditions for the disabled and mentally ill?

• by having all them released based on behavior

• by becoming a hospital adminstrator

• by getting patience to support suffrage

• by reforming jails and hospitals.

Dorothea Dix

• Wanted better treatment for the ill and the imprisoned

• Dix created asylums for the them with improved treatment

• She also traveled the country, standing up for mentally disabled people and fighting for better conditions for them.

Multiple Choice

Which is an effect of the cotton gin.

• Allowed cotton to be produced year-round

• Decreased the demand for slave labor

• Made shipping cotton less expensive and faster

• Created a renewed dependence on slavery

EFFECTS OF THE COTTON GIN

• Reduced time needed to remove cotton seeds

• Made it more profitable to grow cotton

• Led to the Rise of "King Cotton" in the South

• Created a renewed dependance (depended on) on slavery

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE: African-Americans continuously fought for freedom from slavery through the development of the Underground Railroad, the accomplishments of Harriet Tubman and events like Nat Turners Rebellion.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Select

Which are the direct cause of Rapid Urbanization (check all that apply)?

• Tensions Between Ethnic Groups

• Poor Sanitation and Water Pollution

• Tenement (urban houses occupied by impoverished families) buildings were overcrowded

• Nothing happened.

Multiple Choice

TRUE or FALSE: Nativist sentiment following an influx of European immigrants led to the start of the Know-Nothing Party .

• TRUE

• FALSE

KNOW-NOTHING PARTY

• Was one of the 1st political parties in America which started as a secret organization.

• They were extremely prejudice towards the Irish Immigrants living in America.

• They believed that Irish Immigrants should not participate or be involved in America's political institutions and matters.

• They believed that all business should be conducted in English only.

Multiple Choice

What is a pull factor for much of Chinese immigration to the United States?

• An opportunity for free land in the midwest

• The prospect of religious (+) freedom

• An economic ($) boom in the west

• The possibility of free education.

The Second Great Awakening

• a revival of religious feeling and belief from 1800s-1840s.

• People gathered in churches and Big White tents to hear messages of hope.

• This movement appealed to people's emotions like the Great Awakening during the 1730s and 1740s.

• The is optimistic messge attracted enthusiatistic followers thoughout the West and North.

• Gave men and women a reason to work for the improvement of Society.

Multiple Choice

The Second Great Awakening was a movement that promoted--

• Spiritual revival and the need for social reform

• the use of reason and scientific theory

• States' rights and governmental reform

• mercantilism and the development of global trade

Multiple Choice

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized a meeting for women's rights called

• Women's Rights Convention

• Rights of Women

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Seneca Rights Convention

Multiple Choice

Which of the following correctly matches the person to their location?

• Susan B Anthony--New Orleans, Louisiana

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton--Seneca Falls, New York

• Harriet Tubman--Charleston, South Carolina

Multiple Choice

Which is a reason in the 1840s, thousand of Irish Immigrants came to the United States?

• Civil war between Protestants and Catholics

• Series of violent conflicts between the British an Irish governments

• Series of smallpox epidemics known as the Black Plague

• to escape famine (hunger caused by a country's inability to grow enough food)