Industrialization
This invention by Eli Whitney made it much faster to separate seeds from cotton fibers.
What is the cotton gin?
Many immigrants came to the U.S. looking for these things: ______.
What are jobs?
What is freedom?
What is land?
This belief said it was America’s destiny to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This movement worked to end slavery.
What is the Abolition Movement?
This woman led efforts to improve prisons and mental health care.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This invention by Elias Howe and later improved by Isaac Singer made sewing clothing much faster.
What is the sewing machine?
This group immigrated in large numbers due to a potato famine.
Who are the Irish?
This purchase doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This movement aimed to end alcohol consumption.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This abolitionist escaped slavery and helped others escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This railroad connected the East and West coasts in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This group often worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are the Chinese immigrants?
This trail was used by settlers traveling west to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This movement fought for women’s rights, including education, jobs, and voting.
What is the Women’s Suffrage Movement?
This former slave became a powerful speaker for abolition and equality.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This machine used water power to move boats upstream on rivers.
What is a steamboat?
This term describes strong pride in one’s country and distrust of immigrants.
What is nativism?
This 1848 event brought thousands of people to California.
What is the Gold Rush?
This movement focused on improving education and schools.
What is the Education Reform Movement?
This education reformer worked to create public schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
This invention allowed for faster communication over long distances using wires.
What is the telegraph?
This group of immigrants came to the United States in the mid-1800s seeking economic opportunity and fleeing political unrest after failed revolutions.
Who are the Germans?
This land was gained by the United States from Mexico after the Mexican-American War in 1848.
What is the Mexican Cession?
This movement improved conditions for people in prisons and mental hospitals.
What is the Prison and Mental Health Reform Movement?
These two women organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?