CB 9 - Immigration and Reform

In the 1840s, thousands of Irish immigrants came to the United States seeking to escape —

• a famine caused by the failure of a staple food crop (potato)

• a civil war between Puritans and Catholics

• a series of violent conflicts between the British and Irish governments

• a series of smallpox epidemics

Which pull factor accounted for much of Chinese immigration to the United States in the mid-1800's?

• Gold being found in California

• An opportunity for free land in the Midwest

• The prospect of religious freedom

• The possibility of a free education

Which immigrant group brought: Kindergarten, Sausage, Christmas traditions and festivals

• German

• Chinese

• Estonian

• Native American

What was a major impact of the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Support grew for the abolitionist movement.

• The profits from the book sales funded early labor organizations

• Congress was inspired to pass laws outlawing the abuse of slaves

• The Supreme Court overturned fugitive slave laws

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 government reform

• mercantilism and the development of global trade

Which movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson lead that promoted' "Nature".

• Transcendentalism

• Temperance

• Abolitionism

• The Second Great Awakening

Who lead the first women's movement convention and also wrote The Declaration of Sentiments, a book about the rights women should have in the country?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Abigail Adams

• Martha Washington

• Sojourner Truth

Who is known as the conductor of the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Phillis Wheatley

Which school mainly focused on painting pictures of Nature?

• The Hudson River school

• The nineteenth-century temperance movement

• books and songs supporting the nativist movement

• Industrialization

Fredrick Douglas inspired followers of the abolitionist movement by

• publishing the anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star

• Writing Uncle Toms Cabin

• Organizing the Underground Railroad

• became the first black Senator