CATEGORY 1: VOCABULARY
This was the shift from hand production to machine production.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Factories used this to produce goods faster.
What are machines?
Man-made waterways used for travel and trade.
What are Canals?
The South’s economy was based on this.
What is agriculture?
This system forced people to work without pay or freedom.
What is slavery?
A change made to improve society.
What is reform?
The growth of cities as people move there for jobs.
What is Urbanization?
These workers often worked long hours for low pay in factories.
Who are women and children?
This canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
Large farms in the South were called this.
What are plantations?
Secret routes used to help enslaved people escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This movement aimed to end slavery.
What is the Abolition Movement?
Machine-made identical parts used in factories.
What are Interchangeable Parts?
This system replaced the artisan system.
What is the Factory System?
These made land travel faster and connected cities.
What are Railroads?
Crops grown for profit like cotton and tobacco.
What are cash crops?
This abolitionist helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This movement tried to reduce alcohol consumption.
What is the Temperance Movement?
A person who wanted to end slavery.
What is an Abolitionist?
This invention removed seeds from cotton quickly.
What is the Cotton Gin
These boats used steam engines to travel upstream.
What are Steamboats?
The North focused more on this type of economy.
What is industry/factories?
This former enslaved person became a powerful speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This document demanded equal rights for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
The belief in individual thinking and connection with nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
This group of young women worked in textile mills in Massachusetts.
Who are the Lowell Girls?
Transportation improvements led to this economic effect.
What is increased trade?
These economic differences caused this between regions.
What is conflict/tension?
One way enslaved people resisted slavery.
What is running away / slowing work / breaking tools?
This meeting in 1848 started the women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?