Machines
What is the American system?
linking transportation ways to connect the South, Northeast, and West
Horace Mann
Education Reform
alcohol abuse, poverty, crime, breaking up families
What is the Industrial Revolution?
an era when technology, the production of goods, and trade rapidly increased in Northeast America
This machine made cotton the most important crop in the South
The Cotton Gin
Mott
Stanton
Women's Rights
Transcendentalist Problem
Society didn't think for themselves or do what they believed was right
Counter-movement to the Industrial Revolution
What is the Cotton Gin?
Machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber
Broken bones, extreme climates, fires are all dangers of this
Lowell Mills (factory work)
Emerson
Thoreau
Transcendentalism
Women's Rights Accomplishments
Seneca Falls Convention: Declaration of Sentiments
Marriage and Property Laws
Right to Divorce
man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic to the Great Lakes
Trade in the Northeast relied on canals until this was completed in 1869.
The transcontinental railroad
Eli Whitney
Industrial Revolution
Cotton Gin
Transcendentalist Accomplishments
writers and poets spread message
introduction to free thinking in society: individual conscience and connection to humans and nature
What is transcendentalism?
philosophy that stressed rising above society to think for yourself
Fulton's invention made shipping goods faster and easier
Steamboat
Nativists
Opposed to Immigration
Education Accomplishments
improvements in curriculum
teacher training and salaries
founding of women and African-American colleges
What was Lowell Mills?
factories in New England where textiles were mass produced