Growth and Reform

Nativists believed that ....

• women were inferior to men

• slavery should be abolished

• immigrants would take jobs away from Americans

• immigrants should have a 5 year naturalization period.

Thousands of immigrants from Ireland came to the United States because...

• a revolution tore Ireland apart

• of economic hardships

• they were pro slavery.

• of a famine

What is abolition?

• equal rights for black people

• equal rights for women

• the fight to end slavery

• the fight to end war

What group of people helped in the abolition movement?

• Irish people

• German people

• White men

• Women

What was Susan B. Anthony known for?

• being a conductor on the Underground Railroad

• being an immigrant who went from rags to riches.

• convincing the government to allow women to own property.

• fortnite

The Underground Railroad was ...

• a railroad that was built underground to avoid detection.

• a network of transportation for slaves in the south to escape to freedom.

• the first railroad to reach California

• not real

Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Stanton

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubmen

Why did Southerners who did not own slaves support slavery?

• They feared the power of the slaveholders.
• They believed they would be able to own slaves someday.
• They knew that the Southern economy depended on slave labor.
• They understood that the Constitution did not ban slavery in the South.

What did Harriet Tubman’s work with the Underground Railroad involve?

• As a freed slave, she led others to take a stand against slave owners.
• As a freed slave, she bought slaves and then gave them their freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she guided slaves from the South to freedom.
• As an escaped slave, she opened a school for those who traveled to Canada.

By 1804 slavery had been ended in all _____________ states

• Northern

• Southern