CH. 13-The Changing American Identity

Which of the following is a push factor of immigration?

• crop failures

• overpopulation

• religious persecution

• all answer choices are correct

Identify THREE pull factors of immigration.

• political turmoil

• economic opportunities

• educational opportunities

• religious persecution

• abundant land

An extreme lack of crops or food causing widespread hunger.

• famine

• steerage

• emigrate

• blight

A person who believes native-born people should be favored more than immigrants.

• prejudice

• assimilate

• activist

• nativist

The Second Great Awakening was an American Protestant movement based on revival meetings and a direct and emotional relationship with God.

• true

• false

________ helped establish a public education system in Massachusetts for students of all social classes, genders, races, ethnicities, and faiths.

• Prudence Crandall

• Frederick Douglass

• Horace Mann

• Dorothea Dix

In the 1820s, workers began to organize _____ unions, or groups that advocate for workers rights and protections.

• financial

• labor

• religious

• craft

Transcendentalism an intellectual and social movement of the 1830s and 1840s that called for rising above society's expectations.

• true

• false

To peacefully disobey the law is known as—

• temperance

• abolition

• civil disobedience

• transcendentalism

Which of the following was an abolitionist?

• William Lloyd Garrison

• the Grimke Sisters

• Frederick Douglass

• all answer choices are correct