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| What did the women working in the Lowell Mills form in 1836 to seek better working conditions? |
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| Which reformer investigated and brought change in the living conditions of those who were suffering from a mental illness? |
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| Which transcendentalist recommended nonviolent civil disobedience to express opposition to law? |
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| Where did the planners of the women's rights convention write the document that begin, "All men and women are created equal"? |
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| Which abolitionist speaker also spoke out for women's sufferage? |
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| What did Horace Mann call "the greatest equalizer"? |
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| How did some brave people help slaves escape to freedom? |
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| From which country did immigrants come after potato crop failures in the 1840s? |
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| A large group of skilled immigrants seeking economic opportunity came from which country? |
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| What movement did many Americans, especially women, join to defeat alcohol abuse? |
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| A severe food shortage that results in widespread hunger and death is known as: |
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| A person who leaves his or her country to live elsewhere is called: |
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| A person born in a country who wants to eliminate foreign influence from his or her country is known as |
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| The cheapest way to travel by ship to America in the mid-1800's was by purchasing a ticket for |
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| A nagative opinion that is not based on facts is called a |
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| An escaped slave who became one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad |
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| Another name for voting rights |
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| escaped from slavery to speak out against it in the United States and overseas; also published an antislavery newspaper |
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| another name for the movement to end slavery |
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| antislavery reformer who also worked for women's rights |
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| About how many miles would slaves have to travel from Evansville, Indiana to Detroit, Michigan? |
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| Enslaved persons from the areas near Cairo, Illinois, would mostly take which route to freedom? |
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| Cairo across land to Chicago, Lake Michigan to Collingwood |
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| What place provided the greatest number of immigrants in 1840? |
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| What percentage of immigrants who arrived in 1850 were British? |
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| What place provided the fewest number of immigrants in 1840? |
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| What percentage of of immigrants who arrived in 1850 were German? |
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| About how many peopole arrived form Ireland in 1850? |
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