Vocabulary
movement to bring in end to slavery in America was called
abolitionism
Both Horace Mann and Noah Webster inspired reform in
education
The South and West despised various laws that provided this, attempting to protect American industry
protective tariffs
immigrant labor, new inventions, willing workers, political stability in America all contributed to the
Industrial Revolution
what 1793 invention had the greatest impact on America in the 19th century
cotton gin
educational books that taught reading through lessons in morality, patriotism, and idealism.
McGuffey's Readers
Seneca Falls convention and Declaration of Sentiments are related to what reform movement
first women's rights movement
Many northern leaders of the First Women's Rights Movement got their start with leadership roles in what other movement
abolitionism
young people became the focus of families, and it became a goal to raise productive citizens prompting the nickname for the 19th century
"century of the child"
what invention had the greatest impact on America in the 21st century
cell phone
resentment in America toward German and Irish immigrants caused the rise of
nativism
The quest for a perfect society inspired experiments called
utopian communities
Any attempt to add new states was met with conflict because it would
upset tie balance in the Senate
phrase for women experiencing expanded authority within their household sphere
cult of domesticity
what pre 1950 invention had the greatest impact on 20th century America
car or electricity
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
capitalism
Dorothea Dix inspired what two reform movements
mental health and prisons
The South stood alone in their resistance to the government funding
internal improvements
Lack of resources, depression, loneliness, ill informed, lawlessness were all problems faced by
frontier settlers
inventions in transportation and communication in the early 19th century caused the north, south, and west to become more
interdependent
system in which companies were created to provide access to supplies for trappers in exchange for their furs
rendezvous system
Women and factory owners inspired which reform movement
temperance
In the first half of the 19th century, the two greatest contributors to growing sectionalism were
slavery and expansion
Women found the highest degree of independence through involvement with
their church
Name two inventions that transformed western agriculture
steel plow and mechanical reaper