Women
The movement for women's rights had its most visible gathering in 1848, in this location.
What is Seneca Falls, NY?
This innovation in how some tools and weapons were manufactured shifted labor away from traditional systems of skilled artisans and apprentices and toward factory lines.
What are interchangeable parts?
Without this specific form of transportation, you almost certainly would not be attending Buffalo Seminary.
What is the Erie Canal?
This 19th century religious movement that developed as a response to increased rationality and technology moved many Americans to connect emotionally with religion and work to make the world a better place.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The American South relied heavily on sales of this product for wealth as well as for solidifying their relationship with the rest of the country and the world.
What is cotton?
Before it became common for some women to work in factories, they were generally not allowed to own this on their own.
What is money or property?
This significant shift in how people worked, how goods were produced, and where goods were sold has a name that is super easy to remember.
What is the Market Revolution?
(Get it? SuperMarket?)
This local region was known for intense devotion to religion, including the founding of several new religious movements.
What is the burned-over district?
While religious changes in the North and West bolstered this reform movement, wealthy planters in the South developed justifications based in religion for why it was unnecessary or even wrong.
What is the abolition movement?
This 18th century invention led to increased textile production in the US as well as increased demand for the labor of enslaved people.
What is the cotton gin?
In general (with a few notable exceptions) the women who were able to participate in reform movements met these criteria.
What are white and upper/middle class?
What are (Northern) cities?
While this aspect of transportation may seem incredibly basic (it's something you probably use most days), the idea that the country would benefit from the government building it made a huge contribution to American industry.
What are roads?
This social reform movement, primarily driven by women, presented the behavior it tried to stop as a moral failing that destroyed families (but critics argue that it disproportionately attacked the culture of immigrants from places like Ireland and Germany).
What is the temperance movement?
This technology powered multiple new forms of transportation that moved both over land and on water.
What is the steam engine?
The textile mills in this Massachusetts town famously relied on the labor of young women, who lived in company-provided dormitories.
What is Lowell?
A major shift that took place in the first half of the 19th century was in this element of how work occurred.
What is where it took place? (Namely--the shift from working at home to working in factories or other centralized locations.)
Significant changes in American work, transportation, technology, and political movements in the first half of the 19th century were centered primarily here.
What is the North?
This philosophical movement, led by thinkers and writers like Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Bronson Alcott, advocated attempts to move beyond attachment to the material world and rationality and focus on nature and spirituality.
What is transcendentalism?
This mode of land transportation (famously beloved by the 46th president) connected Northern and Western cities decreased the cost of shipping and necessitated the standardization of time across the US.
What is the railroad?
This idea about proper gender roles developed as a way of limiting women's participation in public life in the face of their increased independence and freedom.
What are separate spheres?
This industry, aided by multiple pieces of technology involved in harvesting raw materials as well as manufacturing products that had previously been created at home, was at the forefront of changes in technology and work.
What is the textile industry?
This phrase is used to describe two distinct ideas: both the government's development of infrastructure to aide the growth of manufacturing AND significant changes in how manufacturing took place.
What is the American System?
This movement, with the goal of creating perfect societies, includes a wide range of communities and religions including the Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community.
What is utopianism?
This communication tool spread alongside a mode of transportation that relied on flat ground, making installation of its wires easier.
What is the telegraph?