Vocabulary
A transformation from an agricultural, self-subsistent society to a manufacturing and industrialized one.
Market Revolution
Invented by Eli Whitney that sped up the process of cultivating cotton by removing the seeds quicker.
Cotton Gin
British mechanic and father of the American "factory system", establishing textile mills in New England.
Samuel Slater
Founded in Boston and part of a growing effort of 19th century reformers to limit alcohol consumption.
American Temperance Society
18th and 19th century accounts written by former slaves.
Slave Narratives
A shift towards mass production and mechanization and created the modern factory system.
Industrial Revolution
Young women employed in the growing factories of the 19th century, worked long hours in difficult conditions and living at the mills.
Factory Girls
Inventor of the Cotton Gin and pioneered the use of interchangeable parts.
Eli Whitney
Gathering of women in Seneca Falls, NY where Stanton read the Declaration of Sentiments for women's rights.
Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
Belief that the U.S. was destined by God to spread its ideas of liberty across North America.
Manifest Destiny
Mechanized harvest of grains, allowing farmers to cultivate larger plots.
McCormick Reaper
Erie Canal
Inventor and manufacturing who made money by improving Howe's sewing machine.
Isaac Singer
Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites.
Nat Turner Rebellion
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that dramatized the horrors of slavery.
Uncle Toms Cabin
Religious revival characterized by mass camp meetings and widespread conversion.
Second Great Awakening
Speedy mail service between Missouri and California on horses.
Pony Express
Inventor of the telegraph and the telegraphic code.
Samuel Morse
Slave ship taken over by rebelling slaves, slaves put on trial and found not guilty thanks to John Quincy Adams.
Amistad
Supreme Court decision that extended federal protection to slavery that Congress did not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
Dred Scott v. Stanford
To solve boundary problems between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, will symbolize the divide between the north and south.
Mason Dixon Line
Engineer who constructed the first operating steamboat.
Robert Fulton
Civil war in Kansas over the issue of slavery in the territory and helped lead the way to a bigger civil war in the U.S.
Bleeding Kansas
Federal arsenal in Virginia taken by abolitionist John Brown.
Harpers Ferry