UNIT 9

Question 1

Relating to a town or city

Answer 1

Urban

Question 2

A part of a machine or device that can be replaced by another, identical part ; only way for mass production

Answer 2

Interchangeable parts

Question 3

A group of workers with the same trade or skill

Answer 3

Trade Union

Question 4

The right to vote

Answer 4

Suffrage

Question 5

Drinking little to no alcohol

Answer 5

Temperance

Question 6

The teaching of males and females together

Answer 6

Coeducation

Question 7

person opposed to immigration

Answer 7

Nativist

Question 8

An extreme shortage of food

Answer 8

Famine

Question 9

A religious meeting

Answer 9

Revival

Question 10

The trade of enslaved people among states of the United States

Answer 10

Domestic Slave Trade

Question 11

The use of nonviolent protests to challenge a government o r its laws

Answer 11

Civil Disobedience

Question 12

sole legal right to an invention and its profits

Answer 12

Patent

Question 13

A community based on a vision of the perfect society

Answer 13

Utopia

Question 14

Something that improves upon or makes a significant contribution to an existing product, process or service.

Answer 14

Innovation

Question 15

An economic system in which people and companies own the means of production

Answer 15

Capitalism

Question 16

The period of time when people began to leave their homes and farms in order to work in the mills and collect wages.

Answer 16

Industrial Revolution

Question 17

The act of ending slavery

Answer 17

Abolition

Question 18

A system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet

Answer 18

Morse Code

Question 19

A device that used electric signals to send messages

Answer 19

Telegraph

Question 20

The permanent movement of people into one country from another nation

Answer 20

Immigration

Question 21

A work stoppage by employees as a protest against an employer

Answer 21

Strike

Question 22

Wave of religious interest in the United States during the 1800s (Religion)

Answer 22

Second Great Awakening

Question 23

A free, public school

Answer 23

Common School

Question 24

A school for training high school graduates to become teachers

Answer 24

Normal School

Question 25

A machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber

Answer 25

Cotton Gin

Question 26

A group of landscape painters in the 1800s that focused on scenes from the Hudson River Valley (Landscape)

Answer 26

Hudson River School

Question 27

A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 that helped raised awareness about the cruelty of slavery in the US

Answer 27

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 28

Rules focusing on the behavior and punishment of enslaved people; laws in a Southern state that controlled enslaved people

Answer 28

Slave Code

Question 29

An unfair opinion not based on facts

Answer 29

Prejudice

Question 30

(Who?) An escape political unrest in their country, to find better economic opportunities

Answer 30

German’s immigrating

Question 31

period in the 1840s when a potato disease destroyed crops in Ireland, causing a famine and leading to many deaths and widespread emigration to the US

Answer 31

Irish Potato Famine

Question 32

A political group in the 1850s that opposed immigration and wanted to limit the influence of immigrants, especially Catholics in the US

Answer 32

Know-Nothing Party

Question 33

Literary movement that stressed the relationship between humans and nature, and the importance of individual conscience

Answer 33

Transcendentalism

Question 34

Artistic and literary movement in the 1800s that emphasized emotion, nature, and individual expression often focusing on imagination and beauty

Answer 34

Romanticism

Question 35

An enslaved slave who become a famous abolitionist, writer and speakers fighting to end slavery in the US

Answer 35

Frederick Douglass

Question 36

An abolitionist who published the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator

Answer 36

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 37

An escaped slave who become a leader of the Underground Railroad, helping many enslaved people reach freedom

Answer 37

Harriet Tubman

Question 39

An escaped slave who become a powerful speaker for abolition and women’s rights (Widely Known)

Answer 39

Sojourner Truth

Question 40

A writer and philosopher who led the Transcendentalist movement and encouraged individualism and self-reliance

Answer 40

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 41

Didn’t pay taxes for a war he believed was going to fund slavery (thrown in jail)

Answer 41

Henry David Thoreau

Question 42

A leader in the women’s rights movement who helped organize the first women’s rights convection at Seneca Falls fought for women’s suffrage

Answer 42

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 43

A reformer who worked to improve condition for people with mental illnesses and helped create better hospitals

Answer 43

Dorothea Dix

Question 44

An education reformer who worked to improve public schools and make education available to all children ( he used his voice)

Answer 44

Horace Mann

Question 45

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped the spark for abolitionist movement

Answer 45

Harriet Beecher Stove

Question 46

Inventor who created the telegraph and developed Morse code, a system for sending messages over long distances

Answer 46

Samuel Morse

Question 47

Young women who worked in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the Indus trial Revolution an fought for better working conditions

Answer 47

Lowell Mill Girls

Question 48

Women’s rights activist who played a key role in the fight for women's suffrage and equality

Answer 48

Susan B. Anthony

Question 49

Quaker abolitionist and women’s rights activist who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and fight for women’s equality

Answer 49

Lucretia Mott

Question 50

Railroad, steamengine, steamboat

Answer 50

Important transport

Question 51

Mechanial Reaper and Steel Plow

Answer 51

Reduced farming labor

Question 52

Goals of Labor reform

Answer 52

Regulated child labor, shotern work hours, improve working conditions