Chapter 13 - Meeting the Challenges of the New Age: Immigration, Urbanization, Social Reform, 1820s-1850

free African Americans

By 1860, the United States had almost half a million ________, which accounted for about 11 % of the total black population in the country.

1830

The surge of immigration into the USA, starting in the 1820s and dramatically accelerating after ________, was one of the major aspects of urban growth, with a register of 430, 000 immigrants in 1854.

Seneca Falls Convention

The 1848 ________, the first convention on women's rights in America's history, saw almost 20 years of female social change activity grow.

free African Americans

By 1860, the United States had almost half a million ________, which accounted for about 11 % of the total black population in the country.

Walking towns

people, rich and poor, were living close to their work in a dense and small-like pattern of housing that fostered neighborhoods and social classes

Penny papers

began publication in 1833, and the rapidly increasing number of political papers encouraged and publicized the challenges to the respectability of the middle class of new migrants and disorderly workers

America's Temperance Promotion Society

founded in 1826, became the biggest reform organization of the time