Which Region Is It?
Northeast
He was a leader in the transcendentalism movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Invented interchangeable parts
Eli Whitney
This was a movement to make women equal to men
Women's Rights Movement
This law made it illegal to help runaway slaves
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
Farmers primarily grew wheat and corn
Northwest
This abolition movement leader helped slaves escape to the north on the Underground Railroad
Brought plans from Britain and built a factory in Rhode Island in 1793.
Samuel Slater
She organized the first national women's rights convention
Lucretia Mott
These strengthened economic ties between the East and the West
Canals
This region had few factories or cities
South
In what state did education reform begin?
Massachusetts
Spinning Jenny
Her most famous speech was called "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
This invention played a significant role in replacing hand tools with machines
Steam engine
This was a religion revival that worked to convert people to Christianity
2nd Great Awakening
These competed directly with canals in the transportation sector
Railroads
Who campaigned for humane mental hospitals?
Dorothea Dix
What raw materials were supplied by the South? (2)
Productive farms in this region used steel plows
Northwest
This was the name of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper
The Liberator
He invented the steamboat
Robert Fulton
Declaration of Sentiments
This man was a leader in educational reforms and was Secretary of Massachusetts State Board of Education
Horace Mann