Social Reforms
This is the movement to eliminate the practice of slavery in the United States.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
What was invented by Robert Fulton that improved transportation?
What is the steamboat?
Escaped slave who the North Star and gave speeches in support of the Abolitionist Movement.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
The movement that eventually led to women being allowed to vote in the United States.
What is the Women's Suffrage Movement?
Created paintings reflecting nationalism and encouraging westward expansion.
What is the Hudson River School Artists?
This is the movement to ban alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
This important invention made it easier to separate the cotton fiber from its seed and led to the increased need for slaves on the plantations. Inventor, Eli Whitney.
What is the cotton gin?
Lead conductor of the Underground Railroad that helped slaves escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The process by which a society transitions from a rural society to an urban society. Movement from farms to city factories.
What is urbanization?
Wrote Civil Disobedience and Walden. He, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a transcendentalist writer.
I toured many hospitals and prisons and pushed for prison reform and help for the mentally and physically disabled.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
These inventions improved farming techniques and increased agricultural efficiency,
What is the steel plow and mechanical reaper?
Author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in support of the Abolitionist Movement and in response to the Fugitive Slave Act.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A manmade waterway from Lake Erie to the Hudson River. Connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Midwest and enabled a better trade route.
What is the Erie Canal?
Highlighted inequalities in society and called for changes in the systed of suffrage.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Pushed for better wages and working conditions.
Who is the labor movement?
This invention made it easier to communicate across long distances. Inventor, Samuel Morse.
What is the telegraph?
Led the campaign for mental health and prison reform.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Christian revival movement in the early 1800s in the United States that led to many of the time period's social reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Characteristics of this include:
Private Property
Competition
Profit Motive
Consumer Sovereignty
What is the Free Enterprise System?
This is the first meeting to discuss the inequality of women at the time and the issue of Women's Suffrage.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This implementation of this made the production of manufactured goods faster, easier, and more profitable. It used interchangeable parts.
These two women led the Women's Suffrage Movement and organized the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
Pre-manufactured parts that are identical and can easily replace a broken part on a product.
What are interchangeable parts?
The ____________ ____________ brought improved machinery onto the farms and ranches in the South and West. This led to an increase in need for farmed goods and a decrease in the need for farmworkers. Led to Urbanization.
What is the Industrial Revolution?