Technological Advances
Did industrialization increase or decrease population in the Midwest?
increase
On average, how long were workdays in factories during industrialzation?
11 hours
TRUE OR FALSE: The Second Great Awakening focused on reforms.
True
What was the name of the first women's rights convention?
Seneca Falls Convention
Having one person focus on one step at a time is known as? (term)
specialization of labor
TRUE OR FALSE: Strikes were legal in the 1800s.
False
Religion was practiced through large meetings known as ____________.
Revivals
What is the term for the right to vote?
Suffrage
Who invented the commerical steamboat?
Robert Fulton
What is the term for people who were opposed to immigration?
Nativists
What was the temperance movement?
banning of alcohol
What amendment granted women the right to vote?
19th
Why were clipper ships called "clipper ships"
Their sails decreased travel times and "clipped" time off journeys
Who led a slave rebellion in Virginia?
Nat Turner
Who aimed to expand the role of women and strengthen churches?
Charles Grandison Finney
What is the term for the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of individual conscience?
Transcendentalism
Morse code used two types of symbols. What were they?
Most white people in the South were known as ___________ (farmers who owned small farms)
Yeomen
Horace Mann
Name one of the leaders of the women's rights movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony