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Immigrant group: settled in the Northeast, escaped a potato famine from their home country, helped build the Erie Canal and Transcontinental Railroad (east)
Irish immigrants
Immigrant group: settled in the Midwest, escaped political turmoil and unrest, established small farms, influenced culture (ex: Kindergarten, tuba, education)
German immigrants
Immigrant group: settled in the Midwest, escaped political unrest and poverty, established small farms due to fertile soil
Swedish immigrants
Immigrant group: settled in the West, escaped poverty, created distinct communities in California, helped build the Transcontinental Railroad
Chinese immigrants
Man-made river that decreased the cost of shipping goods and connected the Northeast to the Midwest, made New York City a significant port city, built by Irish immigrants
Erie Canal
This innovation enabled the instantaneous long-distance transmission of information
telegraph
This transportation innovation allowed for a more efficient way to transport people and goods, reducing the price of transporting of goods and the price of fares
the steamboat
Religious revival in the nineteenth century that inspired a wave of social activism
Second Great Awakening
This movement was focused on stopping or reducing alcohol consumption; mainly led by women; expanded the participation of women in other social reform movements
Temperance Movement
A significant figure in U.S. history who fought to create legislation that would improve the facilities for the mentally ill and disabled
Dorothea Dix
This document, drafted at the Seneca Falls Convention, highlighted inequalities that existed in society, and demanded suffrage for all women
Declaration of Sentiments
This reform movement, led by Horace Mann, promoted the idea that public education should be free for all children
Education Reform/Common-School movement
Abolitionist leader who started "The Liberator," increasing support for abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison
Abolitionist who escaped from slavery, wrote an autobiography in which he described his personal experience, and published the anti-slavery newspaper "The North Star"
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which fueled support for the Abolitionist movement
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This religious group were the first to call for an end to slavery during the colonization era because it violated Christian principles
Quakers
