Moving America
This term describes the rapid improvement of roads, canals, steamboats, and railroads.
What is the transportation revolution?
This term means the growth of machine production and factory-based manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
The movement of people into cities is known by this term.
What is urbanization?
This religious revival encouraged people to improve themselves and society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This was the movement to end slavery.
What is abolitionism?
This canal connected the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River and Atlantic markets.What is the Erie Canal?
What is the Erie Canal?
Machine production organized in centralized workplaces is called this.
What is the factory system?
This term means moving into another country to live there permanently.
What is immigration?
The Second Great Awakening taught that individuals had this obligation to address society’s problems.
What is personal responsibility?
Abolitionists argued that slavery violated this Enlightenment principle.
What are natural rights?
This form of transportation used steam power to move goods against a river’s current.
What is a steamboat?
Instead of producing goods at home, these workers earned money by working for an employer.
What is wage labor?
This economic opportunity attracted many immigrants and rural Americans to Northern cities.
What are factory jobs?
An organized effort to correct a social problem is called this.
What is a reform movement?
This 1848 meeting called for greater legal, social, and political equality for women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Roads, canals, and railroads helped businesses reach more customers by creating these.
What are larger markets?
Factories increased production but also often created long hours, low pay, and these unsafe environments.
What are harsh working conditions?
Rapid urbanization frequently produced overcrowding, disease, poverty, and these poor places to live.
What are poor housing conditions / tenements?
Name one reform movement besides abolitionism or women’s rights that grew during this period.
What is education reform, temperance, prison reform, or mental-health reform?
The Declaration of Sentiments intentionally borrowed its language and ideas from this earlier American document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Explain how transportation improvements encouraged factory growth.
They made shipping faster and cheaper, allowing factories to obtain materials and sell goods in larger markets.
Put these events in the correct order: factory growth, larger markets, cheaper transportation, more jobs.
Cheaper transportation → larger markets → factory growth → more jobs
Complete the chain: Factory growth → more jobs → immigration → ________.
What is urbanization or city growth?
This created social problems, including harsh working conditions, poverty, and overcrowded cities, which reformers tried to correct.
Economic growth
This is the right to vote.
What is suffrage?