| A | B |
|---|
| Pull factors for imigration | jobs, freedom, land |
| push factors for imigration | starvation, poverty, lack of political freedom |
| Nativists | Americans and others who opposed imigration because they feared losing jobs |
| Industrial Revolution | Caused rapid growth in cities and the middle class profited most during this period. |
| Middle Class | a social and economic level between wealthy and poor. |
| John Quincy Adams | Wanted an amendment to halt the expansion of slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Publisher of the Liberator and founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society |
| Sojourner Truth | Believed that God wanted her to preach about slavery and women's rights |
| Frederick Douglass | wrote autobiographies to show the injustices of slavery |
| Margaret Fuller | She believed in the transcendentalist principles of individualism to all people, especially women |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The first public meeting on womens rights in the U.S. |
| Susan B. Anthony | she believed in equal pay for equal work |
| Immigrants | Came to America because the possiblity of working in industrial jobs |
| Midwest | Many German immigrant moved here for land |
| Utopian cmmunities | Groups of people who tried to form a perfect society |
| Public services | Had a difficult time keeping up with the rapid growth of the cities |
| Transcendentalism | This group believed that people do not need material things |
| Emerson and Thoreau | The were transcendentalist authors |
| Romanticism | Emphasizes individual expression, nature, and rejection of established rules |
| Free African American Society | Founded by Richard Allen to promote racial equality and the education of blacks |
| Common-school movement | the practice of educating all children in a common place |
| Mississippi River | A major travel route of the Underground Railroad |
