2nd Great Awakening

Probably the GREATEST reason native-born Americans in the first half of the 19th century opposed the immigration of the Irish to America was that the Irish _____

• practiced Catholicism

• refused to be part of new cultures

• brought potatoes to the Americas

• did not speak English

One of the major inspirations for the social reform movements of the 1840s and 1850s America came from ___

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Second Great Awakening

• The Lowell System

• Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle

The foremost political voice of the anti-immigrant sentiment of the first half of the 19th century was ____

• The Democratic Party

• The Whig Party

• The Republican Party

• The Know Nothing Party

William Lloyd Garrison and his newspaper, The Liberator, are associated with which of these movements?

• Education Reform

• Abolition

• Suffrage

• Temperance

It has often been argued that the United States is a "melting pot" of cultures. Which is the best explanation of what this means?

• Cultures with undesirable traits have those aspects “melted” out of them.

• While there is a distinctive basic set of cultures, component groups are distinguishable from one another.

• People and cultures combine to a degree in which a homogenous culture is created from many.

• European cultures are allowed to take precedence over other cultures.

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was crucial in

• allowing women the right of suffrage in South Carolina.

• the immediate passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.

• elevating the cause of women's rights to an issue of national concern.

• causing the women's suffrage to be ignored until after World War II.

Increased immigration to the United States due to the Irish potato famine in the 19th Century led to more cultural conflict PRIMARILY

• The West Coast

• The Midwest

• The South

• The East Coast

Conflict over immigration in the early to mid 19th century erupted in several violent and destructive riots aimed at

• Protestant Immigrants

• Catholic Immigrants

• Polish Immigrants

• French Immigrants

Which abolitionist was known as "Black Moses"?

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglas

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

Which of these is TRUE of the temperance movement at the very beginning of the 1800s in America?

• The movement called for the total ban of all intoxicating liquors.

• The movement attempted to remove any politician who did not support prohibition.

• The movement's goal was to change the US Constitution.

• The movement believed people should decrease the amount of alcohol they drank.