Reform Movements
Which movement was led by Horace Mann and dedicated itself to making school more widely available to children in America?
The Education Reform Movement
She was a woman who worked for the rights of the mentally ill and those in prisons in the United States. She also served as a nurse in the Civil War.
Dorothea Dix
This means to leave one's home country to live abroad
Emigration
These were young women workers who were employed by the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. Daughters of New England farmers, they worked long hours, however, they were provided with some educational opportunities and place to stay
The Lowell Girls
This was the first road paid for by the federal government. It began in Cumberland, Maryland and eventually stretched all the way to St. Louis, Missouri.
The National Road
Led by Dorothea Dix, this movement focused on separating children from adults in prisons and treating prisoners more fairly.
The Prison Reform Movement
She was an American suffragist and abolitionist. She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments in support of Women's Rights in the United States.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This means to go and live permanently in a new country
Immigration
This was the shift towards machine manufacturing and away from hand manufacturing.
The Industrial Revolution
This was the first Women's Rights convention. The attendees wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which upheld the idea that women should have the right to vote.
The Seneca Falls Convention
Which movement argued against alcohol abuse?
The Temperance Movement
She was a Quaker abolitionist and women's rights activist
Lucretia Mott
Potato blight caused ______________ immigrants to go to the United States. These immigrants often faced discrimination
Irish
Who is credited with building up the textile manufacturing industry in Lowell, Massachusetts? His factories put the process of spinning and weaving cloth within one building.
Francis Cabot Lowell
The _______________ revolution was the transition from producing goods for one's self to producing goods for a market.
The Market Revolution
What did Dorothea Dix argue about mentally ill/disabled prisoners?
They should be treated as patients not as criminals
A social reformer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. She was also the co-founder of the temperance movement.
Susan B. Anthony
Revolutions, political unrest, and unemployment led __________________ immigrants to the United States. They mostly settled in the midwest.
German
Invented by James Hargreaves, this machine that used a large wheel to spin many spindles of thread at the same time. Workers could tend to 8 or more spindles at once
Spinning Jenny
This was a man-made waterway that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River.
Erie Canal
The movement for ending slavery
The Abolitionist Movement
She was a women's rights activist who spoke at conventions, wrote articles that argued for women's rights, and also attempted to support Native American rights.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
This political party worked against Irish immigration and Irish immigrants. They also supported slavery.
This plow was able to cut through touch roots of prairie grasses. John Deere didn't invent this, but he did mass produce it to make it successful.
The Steel Plow
A method of sending messages along a wire through electric impulses. The idea was improved upon by Samuel F.B. Morse, who invented a Morse code for the English alphabet
Telegraph