Chapter 13 “New Movements in America” Ms. Monteiro

Immigrants and Urban Challenges American ArtsReforming Society Women’s Rights Movement to End Slavery

Row 1, Col 1 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 for economic 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 and Ralph 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-supported public 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

2,4 Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and publisher of the abolitionist newspaper, the LIBERATOR William Lloyd Garrison

3,4 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 abolitionist and 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

4,4 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

4,4 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 angered when 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