The American Pageant, 13th Edition
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| 1810038585 | Irish Immigration | One of the largest groups of individuals to emigrant to the United States; Main reason was the potato famine | 0 | |
| 1810038586 | German Immigration | 2nd largest group of immigrants. some came to U.S. for political reasons. some fled after the failed revolution in 1848. others came for religious freedom but, most came here for economic opportunity. | 1 | |
| 1810038587 | Second Great Awakening | A second religious fervor that swept the nation. It converted more than the first. It also had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery. | 2 | |
| 1810038588 | Joseph Smith | Founded Mormonism in New York in 1830 with the guidance of an angel. 1843, Smith's announcement that God sanctioned polygamy split the Mormons and let to an uprising against Mormons in 1844; translated the Book of Mormon and died a martyr. | 3 | |
| 1810038589 | Mormons | Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, religious group that emphasized moderation, saving, hard work, and risk-taking | 4 | |
| 1810038590 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | (1815-1902) A suffragette who, with Lucretia Mott, organized the first convention on women's rights, held in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments which declared men and women to be equal and demanded the right to vote for women. Co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony in 1869. | 5 | |
| 1810038591 | Susan B. Anthony | An early leader of the women's suffrage movement, co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869. | 6 | |
| 1810038592 | Oneida Community | It was founded by John Humphrey Noyes. It was a group of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in New York. They practiced polygamy, communal property and communal raising of children. (Utopian society). | 7 | |
| 1810038593 | Hudson River School | Founded by Thomas Cole, first native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River | 8 | |
| 1810038594 | Transcendentalism | A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 9 | |
| 1810038595 | Henry David Thoreau | American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War. | 10 | |
| 1810038596 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement. | 11 | |
| 1810038597 | The Shakers | No sex | 12 | |
| 1810038598 | The Temperance Movement | The movement where American's abstained themselves from the consumption of alcohol | 13 |
