Men
Women
Inventions
Politics
Groups
100

An American inventor that is best known for inventing the cotton gin

Eli Whitney 

100

An American advocate

Dorothea Dix

100

Parts that are, for practical purposes, identical

Interchangeable Parts

100

Defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures

McCulloch v.s Maryland 

100

The practice of marrying multiple spouses

Polygamy

200

American attorney and statesman

Henry Clay 

200

American abolitionist, writer, and member of the women's suffrage movement

Sara Grimke

200

A machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds

Cotton Gin

200

A landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation

Gibbons v.s Ogden

200

The first women's rights convention

Seneca Falls Convention

300

American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president

Andrew Jackson

300

American political activist, women's rights advocate, and supporter of the women's suffrage movement

Angelina Grimke

300

A point-to-point text messaging system, used in the 1840

Telegraph

300

A practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government civil service jobs to its supporters, friends, and relatives as a reward

Spoils System

300

A political party active in the middle of the 19th century

Whig Party

400

American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer

William Lloyd Garrison

400

U.S. Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer

Lucretia Mott

400

A rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train

Locomotive

400

The third protective tariff implemented by the government

Tariff of Abominations

400

A prevailing value system among the upper and middle classes during the 19th Century in the United States and the United Kingdom

Cult of Domesticity 

500

American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

Frederick Douglas

500

American poet and writer from Pennsylvania and Michigan

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

500

A heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid

Steam Engine

500

Passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition

Tariff of 1816

500

A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages

Temperance Movement