Industrialization
Industrialization occurred in the North and the West before the South due to those regions possessing more:
1. Factories
2. Railroads
3. Immigrant labor
These were created by groups of workers in order to put pressure on employers to create better working conditions. Their main goals were a minimum wage and an eight-hour working day.
Labor unions.
True or false: Women participated in industrialization
True, although women were generally paid less for the same work as men due to stereotypes about their productivity.
While the idea of working in industrial jobs lured many immigrants to the United States, the event forced many to make the decision anyway.
The Irish Potato Famine
Dorothea Dix's journalism helped to bring attention to the squalid conditions found in these institutions:
Mental asylums and prisons
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and others participated in this political event designed to bring attention to women's rights and argue for equal treatment under the law.
The Seneca Falls Convention
This invention helped to industrialize the textile industry, leading to an increase in the demand for slave labor.
The Cotton Gin
The American Colonization Society sought to gradually end slavery by creating this new country in Africa, which would become a homeland for freed slaves.
Liberia
The Declaration of Sentiments issued at the Seneca Falls Convention argued that women should be treated equally under the law because:
The use of these allowed manufactured goods to be made in a standard, efficient way, and in much greater quantities than before.
Interchangeable parts
Horace Mann sought to reform schooling in Massachusetts by instituting these:
Standardized textbooks and qualification tests for teachers.
This event could be seen as inspirational to the women's rights movement due to its focus on the ability of sinners to reform their lives and their societies.
The Second Great Awakening
The rapid increase in the population of cities due to immigrant labor led to the rise of these groups, which feared the consequences of immigration and sought to limit it.
Nativists, the "Know-Nothings".
Temperance was a movement against this chemical substance, due to the violent effects consumption of it often produced in society.
Alcohol