American History and Literature Quiz

people who opposed immigration

• tenements

• Know-Nothing Party

• nativists

• middles class

American poet who wrote popular story-poems like The Song of Hiawatha

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Walt Whitman

• Margaret Fuller

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

loosely organized network of people that helped slaves escape from the south

• Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Abolition

ex-slave who became a pro-abolition speaker

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• William Lloyd Garrison

political organization founded by nativists in 1849

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Independent Party

• Know-Nothing Party

a social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor

• lower class

• middle class

• upper class

• high class

American poet best known for his poetry collection Leaves of Grass

• Walt Whitman

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Emily Dickinson

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

dirty, unsafe housing structures in which the cities’ poor were forced to live

• tenements

• projects

• ghetto

• uptown

women’s rights supporter who argued for equal pay for equal work, the right of women to enter male professions, and property rights

• Lucy Stone

• Susan B. Athony

• Matilda Joslyn Gage

• Elizbeth Cady Stanton

movement to encourage people not to drink alcohol

• temperance movement

• common-school movement

• Second Great Awakening

• Horace Mann