Chapter 14

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    Chapter 14

  • Americans take part in the 2nd Great Awakening

  • Charles Grandison Finney had a religious conversion

  • Transcendentalists formed a community in Massachuset

  • Irish immigrants came to America because of potato blight

  • Dorothea Dix visited prisons throughout Massachusetts

  • An election flyer gave Americans a warning

  • Some Germans had staged a revolution against harsh rule

  • Boston health committee reported low wages for Irish

  • Nativists founded the Know-Nothing Party

  • American cities grew rapidly

  • Know-Nothing politicians had some success getting

  • Three-quarters of the country's manufacturing jobs

  • People attended urban theaters

  • American cities faced challenges due to growth

  • Ideas about a simple life started and nature inspired