Chapter 14

By meow.idk

  • large numbers of immigrants crossed the Atlantic to begin new lives in the United States

  • on average Americans drunk 7 gallons of alcohol

  • cholera epidemic

  • Horace Mann became Massachusetts's first secretary of education

  • Utopian communities formed

  • potato blight

  • Anti slavery society asked Douglass to give regular lectures

  • New York City created the first city police force

  • an election flyer gave Americans a warning about immigrants

  • the rules of baseball were formalized

  • some Germans had staged a revolution against harsh rule

  • low wages forced Irish immigrants to live in poor housing

  • the Know nothing party formed

  • chlorea epidemic

  • nativists became politically active