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New Movements in America
BIG IDEAS
1. The population of the United States grew rapidly in the early 1800s with the
arrival of millions of immigrants.
2. New movements in art and literature influenced many Americans in the early
1800s.
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 women’s rights in American society.
REVIEWING VOCABULARY, TERMS, AND PEOPLE
Read each of the following descriptions, and write who or what is
speaking in the space provided.
________________________ 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 Baumfree. I was a sup-
porter 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 below and fill in the blank with the best choice from
the pair provided.
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)
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New Movements in America, continued
REVIEWING THEMES
Using the lists below, determine what theme from history they have in
common.
Themes
geography
politics
technology and
innovation
economics
society and
culture
religion
________________________ 1. Second Great Awakening, Presbyterians, Catholics,
Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists, Shakers
________________________ 2. Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner
Truth, Underground Railroad, American Anti-Slavery
Society
________________________ 3. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca
Falls Convention, Lucretia Mott
________________________ 4. potato blight, tailors, bricklayers, transportation revo-
lution, cheap labor, tenements, middle class
REVIEW ACTIVITY: AMERICAN AUTHOR SNAPSHOT ALBUM
On separate sheets of paper, collect portraits of famous American
authors of the 1800s to make a scrapbook. Portraits of the authors
that you find in reference books can be carefully traced. Other portraits can be found on the Internet and printed. Include at least four
pictures. Label each one with the author’s name and the title of at least
one novel, story, essay, or poem that the author wrote. Here is a list of
authors to get you started.
Emily Dickinson
Henry D. Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Henry W. Longfellow
Herman Melville
Edgar A. Poe
Ralph W. Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne
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