Chapter 13 “New Movements in America” Ms. Monteiro

Chapter 13 “New Movements in America”

Ms. Monteiro

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Immigrants and Urban Challenges

American Arts Reforming Society

Women’s Rights

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Movement to End Slavery

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Why Irish came to U.S. in mid-1840s

Potato famine

2,1

Over 4 million arrived in U.S. between 1840 and 1860

Immigrants

4,1

 People who opposed immigrants

Nativists

5,1

Political party formed to oppose immigrants

Know-Nothing Party

5,1

Came to U.S. because of revolution and foreconomic opportunity

Germans

1,2

Belief that people could rise above material things

transcendentalism

2,2

 Groups of people who tried to form a perfect society

Utopian Communities

3,2

 Movement that involved interest in nature, individual expression, and

rejection of established rules

Romanticism

4,2

 Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

and Walt Whitman

American poets of the 1800s

5,2

Henry David Thoreau andRalph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalists

1,3

Renewed people’s religious faith throughout America

Second Great Awakening

2,3

 Movement that emphasized self-discipline with respect to drinking liquor

Temperance Movement

3,3

 Helped to improved conditions in prisons

Dorothea Dix

4,3

Helped to advance the idea of state-supportedpublic schools

Common school movement – Horace Mann

5,3

 In 1835, first college to admit African Americans

Oberlin College for Women

1,4

Movement for the complete end to slavery

Abolition

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Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and publisher of the abolitionist newspaper, the LIBERATOR

William Lloyd Garrison

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  Escaped from slavery, became important

African American leader in the 1800s, publisher of the NORTH STAR newspaper

Frederick Douglass

4,4

  Traveled and gave fiery and dramatic

speeches as an abolitionistand supporter of women’s rights

Sojourner Truth

5,4

  Escaped slave who returned to the south 19 times

as a conductor on the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

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Sisters who spoke out against slavery and for women’s rights 

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

4,4

 Document written at the Seneca Falls Convention that detailed social injustice toward women

Declaration of Sentiments

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 Brought strong organizational skills to the women’s rights movement and became the main

person associated with the movement

Susan B. Anthony

4,4

  First public meeting about women’s rights in the

United States

Seneca Falls Convention

4,4

 Two women’s rights reformers who were angeredwhen women had to sit behind a curtain at the

World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England in 1840

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott