Inventions
Machine that separated seeds from cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Allowed schooling for all children.
What is the Education Reform Movement?
Lady responsible for Prison Reform.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Land purchased from France for $15 million dollars in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
Movement west in hope of striking it rich.
What is the Gold Rush?
Train line that connected the East coast and the West coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Changed living conditions for the incarcerated and disabled.
What is the Prison Reform Movement?
Former slave and writer and editor of the North Star Newspaper.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
The Adams-Onis Treaty finalized a deal for this land.
What is Florida?
The Grimm Brothers who wrote a series of Fairy Tales, were from this European Country.
What is Germany?
What is the Steamboat?
The fight to end slavery.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
Campaigned for Manifest Destiny.
Who was President James K. Polk?
Spain, Russia, Great Britain and the United States all wanted this territory.
What is the Oregon Territory?
Movement used to change the working conditions in the factories.
What is Labor Reform?
Electrical signals used for communication.
What is the Telegraph?
Banishing of Alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Created the theory of peacefully protesting.
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
This land was annexed from the Lone Star Republic.
What is Texas?
Man made waterway constructed by Irish immigrants.
What is the Erie Canal?
A series of part used to build machines and other devises. Lead to the assembly line.
What are Interchangeable Parts?
Belief in Self-Reliance and a simplistic lifestyle.
What is Transcendentalism?
Woman arrested and fined for illegally voting.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
River that Mexico claimed was the Border of the US and Mexico.
What is the Nueces River?
Location of a major Women's Rights Convention.
Where is Seneca Falls, NY?