Vocab 1
change from manual production to machine-powered factory production that started in England in the late 18th century and spread to other places and brought a transformation in economy, society, and technology
Industrial Revolution
laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights
slave codes
________ immigrants moved west soon after arriving in the United States because they were seeking economic opportunities.
German
The general route of the ________ ________ brought enslaved people to northern states where slavery had been abolished.
Underground Railroad
What would artists of the Hudson River School often paint?
vivid landscapes
money invested in a business venture
capital
a person who wanted to end slavery
abolitionist
One result of the Industrial Revolution in the United States was that the labor reform movement helped establish trade unions. What was the other result?
population grew and had more ethnic and religious diversity
Who felt that enslaved people's work was never enough to satisfy the slaveholder?
Frederick Douglass
________ ________ composed lines in a song as a way to celebrate the different regions and people that make up the nation.
Walt Whitman
movement of population from farms to cities
urbanization
an American who sought to limit immigration and preserve the country for native-born, white Protestants
nativist
What was the main reason for growth in cities during the 1820s-1860s?
Industrialization - development of factories
DAILY DOUBLE: What was the name of the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that the South felt was written propaganda against them?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
William Thoreau believed that the ________ did very little to help the people.
government
association of workers in a specific trade, or line of work, formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions
trade union
one of a group of New England writers and thinkers who believed that the most important truths transcended, or went beyond, human reason
transcendentalist
As the U.S. industrialized, people moved from the countryside to towns and cities for ________ and factory towns developed along ________.
jobs; rivers
________ and other religious leaders in the North opposed slavery because they believed it was a sin for one person to own another person.
Quakers
Horace Mann believed that reforming the American ________ system was important because it would help people become better ________.
educational; Christians
refusal to obey unjust laws using non-violent means
civil disobedience
campaign against alcohol consumption
temperance movement
Name the two reasons why there were fewer industries in the South than in the North in the mid-1800s.
1. people in the South with money bought farmland and enslaved workers
2. many people in the South lacked the money to buy manufactured products
Why did Southerners complain about William Lloyd Garrison?
He promoted slave revolts with his abolitionist writings.
What did the women of the Seneca Falls Convention demand?
1. married women to own property
2. right to vote