INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION INVENTORS
This man illegally brought cotton spinning mill plans from Britain to America and started the first successful textile mill in Rhode Island.
Who is Samuel Slater?
This former slave wrote an abolitionist newspaper called "The North Star" and gave powerful speeches about slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
John Deere invented this farming tool that helped farmers plow their fields much faster, increasing crop production.
What is the steel plow?
This religious revival movement in the 1800s inspired many Americans to fight for social reforms like abolition and temperance.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This immigrant group came to America during the Industrial Revolution due to a potato famine in their country.
Who are Irish immigrants?
He invented the cotton gin, which could process cotton 50 times faster than by hand, but accidentally increased the demand for slavery.
Who is Eli Whitney?
She worked with Congress to provide funding for mental hospitals and improve conditions for mentally ill patients and prisoners.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Cyrus McCormick's invention allowed farmers to harvest crops much faster than before.
What is the mechanical reaper?
This movement fought to limit alcohol consumption, believing it led to addiction, poverty, and family problems.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This is the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas, which happened in the mid-1800s as people sought factory jobs.
What is urbanization?
This inventor created a system where identical parts could be easily replaced in machines, leading to mass production and lower prices.
Who is Eli Whitney? (interchangeable parts)
These three women organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the first meeting to openly discuss women's suffrage.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott?
These man-made waterways reduced transportation costs and shipping time, with the most famous one connecting Lake Erie to New York City.
What are canals? (Erie Canal)
At this 1848 New York convention, participants wrote the Declaration of Sentiments declaring women were created equal to men.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This is when different regions of the country (North, South, and West) developed different economic systems and priorities, leading to increasing tensions.
What is sectionalism?
He invented the steamboat in 1807, which decreased shipping costs by traveling against river currents.
Who is Robert Fulton?
Known as the "Father of American Education," he fought for longer school years, improved teacher training, and increased teacher pay.
Who is Horace Mann?
This 1869 achievement connected the East and West coasts of America, making cross-country travel much faster.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This secret network of paths, houses, and hiding places helped runaway slaves find freedom in Northern states and Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This economic system was the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution where business owners could invest in their business to make money.
What is a capitalism (or free enterprise)?
This man invented the telegraph, allowing people to communicate across long distances using dots and dashes.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This conductor of the Underground Railroad made 13 dangerous trips back to the South to free over 70 enslaved people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
While this invention made cotton processing 50 times faster, it had the unintended consequence of increasing the need for slavery in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This 1850 law forced Northerners to return runaway slaves to the plantation owners they escaped from.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Henry Clay's plan to develop America through protective tariffs, internal improvements, and a national bank was called this.
What is the American System?