The Later Middle Ages



Vocabulary, Terms, and People

READ EACH CLUE. FILL IN THE BLANK WITH THE TERM FROM THE WORD BANK THAT BEST FITS EACH CLUE.

1. “I founded the first free school in America for the hearing impaired.” Who am I?

2. “I was Massachusetts’s first secretary for education; I set a standard for education reform.” Who am I?

3. “My real name was Isabella Van Wagener. I was a supporter of abolition and women’s rights.” Who am I?

4. “I wrote The Scarlet Letter, a novel about Puritan life in the 1600s.” Who am I?

5. “My poems were short and often about nature. Most of them were published after my death.” Who am I?

Comprehension and Critical Thinking

READ EACH SENTENCE. FILL IN THE BLANK WITH THE WORD FROM THE WORD PAIR THAT BEST COMPLETES EACH SENTENCE.

1. The first American college to accept African Americans was ________________________. (Harvard/Oberlin)

2. In the 1840s, many Irish people moved to America because their crops were destroyed by ________________________. (potato blight/locust invasion)

3. Edgar Allan Poe wrote haunting short stories and ________________________. (speeches/poems)

MULTIPLE CHOICE Read each statement or question. On the lines below write the letter of the best answer.

1. Where did most of the millions of immigrants that settled in the U.S. in the 19th century come from?

a. Asia

b. Europe

c. South America

d. Australia

2. Where did most of the Irish immigrants settle?

a. the Northeast

b. the mid-Atlantic

c. the South

d. the Midwest

3. What was the name for Americans who were against immigration?

a. politicians

b. citizens

c. migrants

d. nativists

4. The new social class that arose in the mid-1800s that was neither poor nor wealthy was known as which of the following?

a. Know-Nothings

b. nativists

c. middle class

d. lower class

5. Many immigrants lived in dirty, overcrowded, and unsafe buildings known by which of the following terms?

a. tenements

b. condos

c. duplexes

d. townhomes

MULTIPLE CHOICE Read each statement or question. On the lines below write the letter of the best answer.

1. Who published Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women?

a. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b. Lucy Stone

c. Sarah Grimké

d. Susan B. Anthony

2. This woman was born Isabella Baumfree and later took a name that showed her mission in life.

a. Lucretia Mott

b. Susan B. Anothony

c. Lucy Stone

d. Soujourner Truth

3. This was the first public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States.

a. World’s Anti-Slavery Convention

b. Seneca Falls Convention

c. American Women’s Right Convention

d. Declaration of Sentiments Union

4. As a well-known spokesperson for the Anti-Slavery Society, she was once referred to as “the first who really stirred the nation’s heart on the subject of women’s wrongs.”

a. Lucy Stone

b. Sojourner Truth

c. Susan B. Anthony

d. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

5. New York finally gave married women control of their money and property because of the efforts of this woman.

a. Sarah Grimké

b. Susan B. Anthony

c. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d. Lucy Stone

MATCHING Read each description. On the lines below, write the letter of the term or place that best matches each description.

1. Members of this movement believed that people could rise above material things in life.

2. This transcendentalist wrote the essay “Self Reliance” in 1841.

3. This author edited the famous transcendentalist magazine The Dial.

4. These were groups of people who tried to form a perfect society.

5. This Romantic author wrote the novel The Scarlet Letter in the 1800s.

6. This is Herman Melville’s novel, which is thought to be one of the finest American novels ever written.

7. This Romantic poet wrote the haunting poem, “The Raven.”

8. Most of her short, thoughtful poems were published after her death.

9. His story-poems became favorites in many American households.

10. This poet praised both American creativity and democracy in his simple unrhymed poetry.

a. transcendentalism

b. Edgar Allen Poe

c. Emily Dickinson

d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

e. utopian communities

f. Margaret Fuller

g. Moby-Dick

h. Nathaniel Hawthorne

i. Ralph Waldo Emerson

j. Walt Whitman

Read the FALSE statements below. On the lines provided, replace the underlined words to make the statements TRUE.

1. Charles Grandison Finney improved the education and lives of people with vision problems.

2. An all-female academy in Connecticut was started by Dorothea Dix.

3. Lyman Beecher was a leader of the common-school movement.

4. People in the temperance movement wanted all children taught in a common place, regardless of background.

5. Catherine Beecher was a middle-class reformer who helped change the American prison system.

6. Minister Horace Mann spoke widely about the evils of alcohol.

Directions Read each term. On the lines provided, write the letter for the definition that matches each term.

1. abolition

2. American Anti-Slavery Society

3. American Colonization Society

4. Angelina and Sarah Grimké

5. emancipation

6. Frederick Douglass

7. Harriet Tubman

8. Underground Railroad

9. William Lloyd Garrison

a. a group that wanted instant equality for African Americans

b. an African American leader who gave speeches and published a newspaper to show the cruelty of slavery

c. a group of people that helped escaped slaves hide or travel north

d. freeing of African American slaves

e. famous leader of the Underground Railroad

f. an organization that established colonies of freed slaves in Africa

g. publisher of an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator

h. a complete end to slavery

i. two white southern women who spoke out against slavery

DIRECTIONS Read the FALSE statements below. On the lines provided, replace the underlined words to make the statements TRUE.

10. The American Anti-Slavery Society was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for runaway slaves.

11. The Underground Railroad spread anti-slavery literature and asked Congress to end federal support of slavery.

12. Harriet Tubman published an abolitionist newspaper called the Liberator and helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society.

13. The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was Frederick Douglass.

14. William Lloyd Garrison was an African American leader who gave many speeches in support of abolition.

Review Activity: AMERICAN AUTHOR SNAPSHOT ALBUM

WRITE A SHORT DESCRIPTION ON EACH IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FIGURE.

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Main Ideas in this chapter

1. THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES GREW RAPIDLY IN THE MID–NINETEENTH CENTURY, AS MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS ARRIVED.

2. New movements in art and literature influenced many Americans in the early nineteenth century.

3. Reform movements in the early 1800s affected religion, education, and society.

4. In the mid-1800s, debate over slavery increased as abolitionists organized to challenge slavery in the United States.

5. Reformers sought to improve the place of women in American society.

Horace Mann Thomas Gallaudet Nathaniel Hawthorne

Emily Dickinson Sojourner Truth

Thomas Gallaudet Dorothea Dix Horace Mann

Catharine Beecher common-school movement Lyman Beecher

Underground Railroad Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman

William Lloyd Garrison American Anti-Slavery Society

Emily Dickinson Henry D. Thoreau Walt Whitman Henry Longfellow

John Whittier Edgar A. Poe Ralph Emerson

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