Market Rev
This 363-mile "ditch" connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, making NYC a global trade hub.
Erie Canal
This religious revival emphasized "Free Will" and sparked the desire to fix society's sins.
2nd Great Awakening
I published the liberator and called for an end to slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison
Robert Fulton’s Clermont proved the viability of this invention, allowing for two-way travel on rivers.
Steamboat
This former slave and brilliant orator published The North Star and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.
Frederick Douglass
Eli Whitney’s two major contributions had massive economic consequences. What were they?
Cotton Gin & Interchangeable parts
The most popular reform movement of the era, it sought to limit or ban the consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
I traveled to "asylums" and prisons, eventually convincing states to build mental health hospitals
Dorothea Dix
Samuel Morse’s invention allowed for near-instantaneous communication over long distances
Telegraph
As production moved from the home to the factory, this term describes the shift from "producing for oneself" to "producing for sale to others."
Market Revolution
This "System," pioneered in Lowell Massachusetts, employed young farm girls and created the concept of wage slaves
Factory system
This philosophy, led by Emerson and Thoreau, emphasized self-reliance and the beauty of nature
Transcendentalism
I am known as the "Father of the Common School" movement in Massachusetts.
Horace Mann
This system pushed for federally funded internal improvements like roads and canals.
Henry Clay's American System
Often called the "Father of Modern Revivalism," he pioneered the 2nd Great Awakening and was a major figure of the time.
Charles Grandison Finney
Explain 3 factors that led the shift from a subsistence economy to a market economy
--changes in labor
--changes in transportation connecting the country
-- changes to technology
"The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her... He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns."
This document was drafted and signed at a 1848 convention in New York, marking the formal beginning of the organized women's rights movement in the U.S.
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged... It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens... but we, the whole people, who formed the Union."
Susan B. Anthony
Explain how the economy became more interconnected and how it led to economic growth:
Raw materials from the West and South were sent up North to be made into finished products. Those goods were then sold domestically and to foreign countries.
Cyrus McCormick’s invention of this machine revolutionized Midwestern farming by speeding up the grain harvest.
Mechanical Reaper
A modern Conservative or Libertarian might oppose federal funding for a "high-speed rail" today using the same argument 19th-century Democrats used against canals: that the Constitution does not grant the government this specific power, a concept known as ______.
Limited Government
"I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least'... It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right."
Who came up with this quote, what concept is it talking about and what movement did it relate to?
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, Transcendentalist movement
"They who produce the wealth of the world are the only ones who have a right to the enjoyment of it... We are not the 'servants' of the Corporation. We are free-born American daughters of the Revolution, and we will not be worked like the slaves of the South to enrich the masters of the North.
Lowell Factory worker, (Sarah Bagley)
Advocates of the 'American System' argued that federally funded internal improvements would bind the nation together. However, many Southern politicians opposed such technology-driven expansion because they feared it would necessitate this specific type of federal revenue, which they believed unfairly protected Northern industry at the expense of the South:
Protective Tariffs
This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that the federal government had the power to regulate interstate commerce, breaking up a steamboat monopoly.
Gibbons v. Ogden