Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 4:  The Growing Years
Page 4 - 27 and 4 - 28   Growing Reform and Religion
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The Pictures:
 
1.  Two mentally ill women being held in a jail cell.  In the early 1800s, the mentally ill and insane were often confined like common criminals. 

 

2.  A bottle used for wine or other alcoholic drinks.  Problems caused by drinking alcohol gave rise to the temperance movement in the early 1800s.


 

3.  A modern drawing of Harriet Tubman.  She escaped from slavery and became famous for helping others escape and flee to the North. 

Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 4 - 28.)
 
1.  ...and Jewish religious...
2.  ...the blind, some...
3.  ...move up the...
4.  ...elaborate rules aimed...
5.  ...included polygamy, or...
6.   ...founded Salt Lake City.
7.   ...their husbands drank...
8.   ...full equality in...
9.   ...the homemaker - was...
10.  ...risked death going...
11.  ...the North as well...
12.  ...famine, was common.


Names and Terms List:

   Teachers and students can access a full glossary through the "Names and Terms" link on the Home Page of the Internet support site at www.fasttrackteaching.com
 
 
 

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