Undercover reporter who experienced the horror of prisons and the treatment of the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
spent half of her life as a slave. She was a public speaker on topics like women's rights and abolition.
Sojourner Truth
Religious revivals beginning in 1801 that stressed Christian values and moved people away from sin and initiated many of the reform movements.
Second Great Awakening
Controversial President who has a quick temper who was known as a war hero but then later thought of as a villain due to his support of the Indian Removal Act
Andrew Jackson
Invention that greatly sped up the process of removing seeds from cotton fibers
A new movement in art, literature, and music with an emphasis on nature and humanity.
Transcendentalism
Interchangeable Parts
Invented the cotton gin, offered southerner planters justification to maintain and expand slavery
Eli Whitney
the system of manufacturing that began in the 19th century with the development of the power loom and the steam engine and is based on the concentration of industry into large establishments
Factory System
Was a conductor along the Underground Railroad and an abolitionist.
Harriet Tubman
machine that spins cotton into thread 24 times faster than older machines
Spinning Jenny
Inventor of the loom, owner and operator of Lowell Mills
Francis Lowell
a system fro transmitting messages from a distance along a wire creating signals by making and breaking electrical connection.
Telegraph
An engine that uses the expansion of rapid condensation of steam to generate power.
Steam Engine
Was a national leader of the abolition reform movement, born a slave but escaped at the age of 20.
Frederick Douglas
Planned first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls and authored "Declaration of Women's Right" pushed for full political equality for women.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
a push for mandatory, free, public education that would be available to "regular kids"
Educational Reform
Owner and operator of an anti-slavery newspaper called "the Liberator" and a supporter of emancipation.
William Lloyd Garrison
Leading organizer for women's suffrage and equal rights. Was arrested for casting a ballot in the 1872 election.
Susan B. Anthony
the period in American (and world) history in which society moved to focus on machines, factories, and production of goods.
Industrialization
A reform movement of the 19th century where women fought to be elevated in society desiring more equality, rights, opportunity, and suffrage.
Women's reform/suffrage
Raised in a Quaker community. She was one of the leading voices of the abolitionist and feminist movement of her time.
Lucretia Mott
The rapid manufacture in large numbers of identical objects
Mass Production
People who invest money into a business to make money
Capitalist
believed democracy depended on educating American citizens, gave rise to the first public schools in Massachusetts.
Horace Mann