8.1 Economic Growth
Name the machine invented by Eli Whitney, that allowed one worker to clean cotton as fast as 50 people working by hand.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The first canal built in the United States.
What is the Erie Canal?
Which of these is true:
In the mills and factories of the 1830s and 1840s woman :
1. were paid less than men
2. were included in male unions
3. led successful strike
4. all of the above
What is were paid less than men?
The reason that many reform movements emerged in the 1800s; Inspired people to improve society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
The idea of teaching boys and girls together
What is coeducation?
This term means the sole legal right to an invention
What is a Patent?
This allowed passengers and cargo to travel against the current.
What is the Steamboat?
These people opposed immigration and believed that immigrants took jobs from Americans, were criminals, and spread disease.
This female reformer dedicated her life to improving conditions for prisoners.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
A weaver who founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley
Vocabulary word: Scientific discoveries that simplify work.
What is technology?
This man was hired by Robert Livingston to design the Steamboat with a more powerful engine.
Reason why many Irish immigrants took low paying factory jobs.
What is because they were too poor to buy land?
Included people such as Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henery David Thoreau:
this group stressed the relationship between humans and nature, as well as the importance of an individual conscience.
Who are the Transcendentalists?
Woman's rights meeting that issued a Declaration of Sentiments.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
Why were most mills in the Northeast built near rivers?
What is because they used water power?
The building of __________ lower the cost of shipping and helped towns grow?
What are canals?
Tow ways woman in the work force were discriminated against?
What is, lower pay and kept out of the male unions?
This man was a leader of Educational reform
Who is Horace Mann?
She was the first woman doctor?
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
What was the nations largest city in the early 1800s?
What is New York?
What was the purpose of canal locks?
What is a way to raise and lower boats at places where canal levels changed?
What are two of the reasons that cities grew in the early 1800s?
* you can list all 3 or just give me 2
What is: the growth of factories, the creation of transportation networks such as roads and canals, and the rise of immigration?
These reforms helped to eliminate alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
By the 1850s, most states had accepted the idea that"
1. schools should be free
2. teachers should be trained
3.children should be required to attend school
4. all of the above
What is 4. all of the above?