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100
what year was the Erie canal connected to the Great Lakes and New York
What is 1825
100
Women who worked in the textile mills were referred to as
what is mill girl's
100
The industrial revolution began with which of the following products?
What is the cotton gin
100
What age could boys start working as office runners and waiters
What is 11 and 12
100
In cotton textile mills like Lowell, Masscchussetts more than 80% of employees were ____
What is young unmarried women
200
What year was considered the beginning of the railroad era? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8lX5A2q-Eo
What is 1830-31?
200
What town in 1821 was the American textile mill fully realized?
What is Lowell
200
What was invited by Samuel Morse in 1844? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ78RKcN4r0
What is The Telegraph?
200
What class families had protected childhoods
What is middle and upper class families
200
True or False? Women weren't allowed to attend college? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNs29KuVWn4
What is true?
300
who invented the steamboat enterprise?
Who is Robert Fulton
300
What river powered the Lowell textile mill?
What is the Merrimack River
300
What invention did Francis Cabot Lowell and Paul Moody recreate in 1813 that was inspired by the mills in Manchester, England?
The power loom
300
A period in which boys and girls were sheltered within the home and nurtured through primary schooling
What is Romantic Childhood
300
The expected task of women in the 1800's was be be a _____ or a _______
What is mothers or educators
400
What state launched the first long distance rail line in 1827?
What is Maryland
400
Of the 362 deaths that occurred in the Lowell Textile Mill how many of them were from children under 10 years of age?
What is 200
400
What was created by the Boston School Committee for “young gentlemen preparing for mercantile and other pursuits, who may wish for an education superior to that usually obtained in the common schools, but different from a college education, and better adapted to their particular business?"
What is English High School
400
A period in which boys and girls were sheltered in the home and nurtured through primary schooling
What is Romantic Childhood
400
because of the idea of _____ women were considered legally dead if they were not married because married couples were considered a single unit represented by the husband.
What is Coverture
500
Baltimore’s city government and the state government of Maryland provided half the start-up funds for what railroad company?
What is Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Rail Road Company?
500
By 1832, textile companies made up __ out of 106 American corporations valued at over $100,000
What is 88
500
Who was the inventor of Morse Code
Who is Samuel Morse
500
what ideology set the realm of the world of economic production and political life—apart as a male domain, and the world of consumers and domestic life as a female
What is seperate spheres
500
In the 1840's what movement drove thousands of mill girls to sign a petition for better conditions in the Lowell textile mills
What is the Ten Hour Movement