Exam 13: Immigration

What was the primary cause of the cholera, yellow fever, and typhus epidemics that swept through American cities in the mid-nineteenth century?

Which statement was true of most white antislavery reformers?

Which group was the earliest to advocate a movement to end slavery?

The first real career path for women was __________.

Discuss the problems of immigration that America's urban centers faced and were unable to solve between the 1830s and the 1850s.

The sabbatarian movement focused on __________.

Catharine Beecher campaigned for teacher training for women because of her belief that __________.

William Sidney Mount's (1807-1868) painting The Bone Player is unusual in that it portrays an African American man as __________.

What was an immediate consequence of the rise of the abolitionist movement?

The largest groups of immigrants to the United States between 1820 and 1860 were from __________.

Employment prospects for free black men living in northern cities __________ between 1820 and 1850.

The three groups that worked in different ways to bring an end to slavery during the 1820s and 1830s included free African Americans, militant white reformers, and __________.

Which statement about free African Americans in the North is true?

Beginning in the 1830s, a series of violent riots broke out against __________ and __________, the two poorest urban groups living in American cities.

Which of these was a defining characteristic of the reform movements of the 1820s and 1830s?

A political consequence of German and Irish immigration to New York City in the mid-nineteenth century was the end of __________ control of New York City.

What was the primary cause of the rise of social reform movements in the antebellum period?

With which reform movement is Horace Mann most closely associated?

What role did Seneca Falls, New York, play in the reform movements of the first half of the nineteenth century?

Joseph Smith is most closely associated with what area of reform?