Reform Movements
This movement aimed to reduce or eliminate alcohol use.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Farmers can now sell goods to distant markets and buy manufactured goods.
What is the Market Revolution?
Brought textile mills to New England.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell
A natural disaster that led many Irish to emigrate.
What is the Potato Blight
A farming invention helped remove roots and weeds?
What is The Steel Plow
Led efforts to reform prisons and improve treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This region specialized in growing cotton, another specialized in turning it into cloth.
What are the South's crop production, and the North's factory system.
Invention that spun multiple threads at once
What is the Spinning Jenny
Cities where many Irish immigrants settled.
What is Boston and New York City
An invention helped farmers harvest wheat faster.
What is the Mechanical Reaper
The teachers were poorly trained and only wealthy white boys could attend school.
What are the major issues of the Education system?
This person created interchangeable parts that could be easily replaced.
Who is Eli Whitney
Typically worked 12 to 15 hours a day, 6 days a week.
Who are the Lowell Girls?
Jobs Irish immigrants took.
What are Factory jobs, digging ditches, unloading ships
An invention that improved communication across long distances.
What is The Telegraph
Separate facilities were made for women and children, and mental hospitals were built.
What were the changes of the Prison Reform movement?
Replaced skilled work with factory labor doing repetitive tasks
How did the Market Revolution change the lives of craftsmen?
They were cheap labor and seen as temporary workers
What are the reasons why women were hired in the factories?
Denied jobs, stereotyped as lazy, faced violence
What is Discrimination against Irish Immigrants
This transportation invention could travel upstream.
What is The Steamboat
Leaders of the Temperance or Women’s Rights Movement.
Who is Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, or Lyman Beecher
These groups were harmed by the Industrial Revolutions either through land loss, exclusion from the work force, discrimination, or low wages. (At least two)
Who are Native Americans, Women, Black Americans, and Factory workers
Reasons why the Lowell girls went on strike
What are low wages and poor working conditions
A political party was created to oppose Irish immigration?
Who are The Know-Nothings
Reduced shipping costs, linked Midwest to NYC, boosted trade
What is the Erie Canal