Abolition
What was a big form of communication for those on the Underground Railroad?
Quilt squares
What year did labor unionization become legal?
1842
Increased cotton cultivation resulted in what?
widespread soil exhaustion
What does it mean to 'annex'?
add (territory) to one's own territory
Who was the most well known 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Dorthea Dix was known for what?
As being a reformer, concentrating her advocacy on behalf of those suffering from mental illness along with those who had been incarcerated.
Who created the first school for the deaf?
Thomas H. Gallaudet
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What was the main reason the Mormons migrated to modern day Utah?
Religious persecution
This was the first convening of women in the United States is considered to be the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States
Seneca Falls
Define 'manumission'
Release from slavery
List three major reform movements.
Education, temperance, women's rights, prison, labor, care of disabled.
What did canals, trains and bridges do to help with industry?
facilitated the movement of raw materials to factories and finished products to markets
What is Manifest Destiny?
idea that the United States should expand to include the territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the name of the paper that Frederick Douglas produced?
The North Star
Who invented braille?
Louis Braille
Mass production did what to the cost of goods?
Lowered the cost and price.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
was instituted as a process for adding states to the union
How did SojournerTruth contribute to the North during the Civil War?
recruited African-Americans to be soldiers
What year did congress ban the importation of people for slavery from Africa?
What year did the last ship bring people from Africa into slavery?
1807, 1857
What was the focus of the Temperance Movement?
To ban the consumption of alcohol.
We went from a ____________ system to a factory system.
Domestic
What was the 'Homestead Act'?
Granted adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee. Claimants were required to “improve” the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land.
Who founded and was president of the National Women's Suffrage Movement?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton