Transportation Revolution
Robert Fulton’s invention made it much easier to travel upstream on rivers and move goods more quickly.
What is the steamboat?
Eli Whitney’s machine removed seeds from cotton quickly and helped expand cotton production in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This religious movement of the early 1800s inspired many Americans to join reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These laws controlled enslaved people and banned many activities, including learning to read and write.
What are the slave codes?
(or black codes)
This 1848 meeting in New York was the first women’s rights convention.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
By 1860, these connected many cities and formed a network that united the Midwest and the East.
What are railroads?
Samuel Morse invented this communication device that used electric signals to send messages quickly.
What is the telegraph?
This reform movement encouraged people to drink little or no alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
This person led an 1831 uprising in Virginia that frightened white Southerners and led to stricter slave codes.
Who is Nat Turner?
This document, modeled after the Declaration of Independence, argued that men and women are created equal.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This had tall sails and could travel about 300 miles per day across the ocean, cutting the time from New York to Great Britain in half.
What is a clipper ship?
Cyrus McCormick invented this machine, which made harvesting wheat much faster.
What is the mechanical reaper?
This reformer helped create the Hartford School for the Deaf in Connecticut.
Who is Thomas Gallaudet?
This secret network of safe houses and guides helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
These two women helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
This waterway, opened in 1825, helped move grain, livestock, and dairy products from the Midwest to the East.
What is the Erie Canal?
This inventor developed the sewing machine in 1846.
Who is Elias Howe?
This reformer exposed the poor treatment of prisoners and people with mental illness.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
These African American religious folk songs expressed hope, sorrow, and sometimes even shared coded messages.
What are spirituals?
This women’s rights leader worked for equal pay, coeducation, and suffrage, and later partnered closely with Stanton.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This Supreme Court case showed that companies could not block innovation and transportation improvements if the public would benefit.
What is Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge?
These are the 3 phases of Industrialization.
What are
1) smaller steps/specialization
2) grouping in factories
3) working with machines
This formerly enslaved activist gave the famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech calling for both racial and gender equality.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This formerly enslaved woman escaped to freedom in 1849 and later made about nineteen trips back to the South as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, helping many enslaved people escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This literary movement led by Emerson and Thoreau stressed individual conscience and a connection with nature.
What is Transcendentalism?