The Changing American Identity

What are two pull factors attracted immigrants to the United States?

• equal rights and a lot of crime

• available land and job opportunities

• overpopulation and lack of freedom

• Religious persecution and war

What push factor drove many people to emigrate from Ireland and come to the United States between 1845-1852?

• Potato famine

• war and rigid class system

• fertile farmland and well-paid factory jobs

• Religious freedom and equal rights

Why did some native-born Americans organize the American Party in the 1840s?

• because they wanted to encourage cultural diversity in the United States

• because they wanted to promote more immigration to fill factory jobs

• because they wanted the government to provide services to help immigrants succeed in the United States

• because they opposed immigration and wanted laws and favored native-born Americans over immigrants

What social reform effort developed from the Second Great Awakening, a religious movement that featured large revival meetings?

• civil rights movement

• labor union movement

• temperance movement

• gun control movement

What was the goal of educational reform called the common school movement?

• the same subjects taught in all public schools

• public education for every American child

• integrated public schools

• co-ed schools

Why did workers begin to organize labor unions in the 1820s?

• because they wanted overtime pay and pensions

• because they wanted better wages and working conditions

• because they wanted guarantees of job security

• because they wanted to share in factory profits

What kind of reform did abolitionists of the 1800s want?

• an end of slavery

• a ban on alcohol

• voting rights for women

• voting rights for African Americans

What was the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?

• the first convention of abolitionists in the United States

• a national meeting of temperance leaders

• the first national meeting of public school teachers

• The first woman's' rights convention in the United States

Who was Dorothea Dix?

• to advocate for the mentally ill in the 1800s

• a leading women's rights activist in the 1800s

• a key union organizer of the 1800s

• a major poet of the 1800s

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

• it increased the U.S. population by 7.5 million

• it increased the U.S. population by 2.5 million

• it increased the U.S. population by 1.7 million

• it doubled in size of the U.S. population