The Transportation & Industrial Revolutions
It enabled goods, people, and information to travel farther and faster than ever before.
The Transportation Revolution
Exhausted land of its nutrients and required more and more land for cultivation.
Cotton plants
Helped cause various reform movements in antebellum America
The Second Great Awakening
He wrote Walden, which stressed self-reliance and living simply.
Henry David Thoreau
The Irish and the Germans
These grew as trains brought new residents and raw materials for industry and construction.
Cities
Travelling freely, voting in local elections, and conducting business transactions
Activities that were illegal for free African-Americans in antebellum American
Led the movement to reform the care of people who are mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
Jobs enslaved people performed on plantations
Low wages, long hours, and poor working conditions describe workers in what part of the country?
The North
Raising children and supervising household slaves
The role of the planter's wife on plantations.
Harriet Tubman
Their main goal was to prevent Catholics and immigrants from holding public office.
The Know-Nothing Party
Three pull factors.
Famine, failed revolutions, poverty
Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Eli Whitney
Running away, breaking tools, and working slowly.
Ways slaves rebelled.
Led the largest slave rebellion in American history in 1831.
Nat Turner
Relied on young, unmarried women from local farms for labor
The Lowell System
Jobs close to home and plentiful employment opportunities.
Benefits of urban living
Supreme Court ruling that said the federal government had authority to regulate trade between the states.
Gibbons v. Ogden
They lived on an average of 100 acres of land and owned few or no slaves
Yeoman Farmers
A social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor.
The middle class
An American who built the Tom Thumb, a small, steam-powered railroad locomotive with great power and speed
Peter Cooper
Overcrowded tenements and poor public health regulations
Problems of urban living