Economic Growth
Transportation
People of the North
Reforms and Reformers
The Women's Movement
100
Economic system in which people are free to buy sell, and produce whatever they want
What is free enterprise?
100
Invention that made it possible to easily travel against the current.
What is the steamboat?
100
Groups of skilled workers who began to form in the 1830s, hoping to improve working conditions.
What are trade unions?
100
Communities based on a vision of a perfect society.
What are utopias?
100
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
200
Invention that greatly increased the amount of cotton grown in the United States.
What was the cotton gin?
200
Man-made waterway that traveled from Albany, New York to Buffalo, New York- a total of 363 miles.
What is the Eerie Canal?
200
Largest group of immigrants to come to the United States during the years 1846-1860
What are the Irish?
200
Reform movement that sought to decrease the use of alcohol in an attempt to make society better.
What was the temperance movement?
200
Location of the women's rights convention of 1848.
What is Seneca Falls, New York?
300
System that brought manufacturing steps together into one place to increase efficiency.
What is the factory system?
300
Roads built by private companies, who charged tolls for their use.
What is a turnpike?
300
Second largest group of immigrants to come to the United States between the years 1848-1860.
Who are the Germans?
300
Reformer who believed that education was the key to reforming society.
Who was Horace Mann?
300
The Declaration of Sentiments, created at the Seneca Falls Convention, was based on what important American document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
Group of female workers who were employed in mills in a town in Massachusetts.
What were the Lowell Girls?
400
Inventor of the steamboat
Who is Robert Fulton?
400
Political party formed by the nativists as a reaction against immigration.
Who were the "Know-Nothings"?
400
Reformer who focused on improving living conditions in "insane asylums" and prisons.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
400
Three primary organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who were Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony?
500
Period of time when people left their homes and farms to work in the mills and earn wages.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
500
Technology that allowed the movement of boats on canals.
What is the lock system?
500
Woman who petitioned the state legislature for a 10 hour day in 1845.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley?
500
Writer of this poem: Hope is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without the words- And never stops-at all-
Who is Emily Dickinson?
500
First American woman to receive a medical degree.
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
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