| A | B |
|---|
| rural | having to do with the country |
| urban | having to do with the city |
| immigrant | a person who comes to a country with the purpose of living there |
| famine | a time when people in a place starve because there is not enough food |
| equal rights | rights that ALL people in a society should have |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| reformer | a person who works for a cause that improves the way something is done in a society |
| temperance | a reform movement that is against drinking alcohol |
| John Deere | invented the first steel plow that made plowing time shorter |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized first women's rights convention; first to speak before the legislature in New York |
| Lucretia Mott | helped co-organize the Seneca Falls Convention; president of Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society |
| Susan B. Anthony | leader in the women's rights movement |
| Sojourner Truth | once an enslaved person; traveled to the North to speak against slavery; supporter of women's rights |
| Horace Mann | leader in struggle to set up public schools; believed education was the "great equalizer" |
| Emma Willard | opened a school just for girls |
| Dorothea Dix | fought for conditions among prisoners suffering from mental illness |
| Seneca Falls Convention | met in 1848 with 200 women and 40 men attending wrote the Declaration of Sentiments based on the U.S. Declaration of Independence |
| German Immigrants | came seeking political and social problems (and years of ruined crops from flooding) |
| Irish Immigrants | came to escape huge famine from diseased potato crop |
| Asian Immigrants | came seeking gold and to become rich |
| cities grew | farming changed with the invention of the reaper and plow so many found themselves without jobs and moved to the city for employment and excitement |
| reformers | believed that people were bad only because they lived in bad conditions, so they sought to change societal conditions |
