Reformers of the 1800s
This reformer wanted to improve public schools and pay teachers more money.
Horace Mann
The Liberator and The North Star were newspapers that spoke out against this.
Slavery
Before the Industrial Revolution, all goods were made by this.
hand
What was a slave's greatest fear?
Being sold away from their families
What two steam powered modes of transportation were invented in the early 1800s?
Boats and Trains
Dorothea Dix wanted to reform these institutions.
Prisons
She was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Early Factories were powered by this.
water
Many slaves had this job on the plantations.
Field hands
He invented the modern steamboat.
Robert Fulton
George Ripley and other reformers built "Ideal Communties" where everyone shared what?
Work/Chores, Food, Housing
What institutions in the south defended slavery?
Churches
Most textile mills hired this group of people.
young, unmarried women
Slaves would jump over this to commit to marriage on the plantation.
a broomstick
The "Tom Thumb" was the first steam powered.
Train
Susan B. Anthony fought hard for these two rights for women.
The right to vote and equal pay.
He was a runaway slave who spoke about the evils of slavery.
Frederick Douglass
This was the greatest invention to come out of the first Industrial Revolution.
Steam Engine
Runaway slaves would only move at night and try to follow this.
North Star
This famous canal connected the Great Lakes region to the Hudson River in New York City.
Erie Canal
These two authors were Transcendentalists who wanted to improve society.
Thoreau and Emerson
These sisters gave their slaves freedom and then spoke out against slavery.
Grimke Sisters.
Name 3 major inventions from the Industrial Revolution.
Steam Engine, Power Loom, Sewing Machine, Cotton Gin, interchangeable parts.
Name three things a slave would do to resist slavery.
Break Tools, start fires, fake sick, steal food, defy their master or run away.
What was the name of the first public road built by the government, it passed through the Appalachian Mts.
The National Road