Inventions
The person who invented the Cotton Gin and Interchangeable Parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
Pushed for increased rights for females, including suffrage
What is the Women's Rights Movement?
A lead abolitionist who became the spokesperson of anti-slavery and founded the North Star
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The region where most factories are located
What is the North?
Pushed for the end of slavery in all regions of the United States
What is Abolition?
Allowed for faster and more efficient movement of goods on water
What is the Steamboat?
Discouraged the consumption of alcoholic beverages and involved many women
What is the Temperance Reform?
Practiced civil disobedience by refusing to pay his taxes in refusing to protest against the Mexican American War
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Created a space for workers to do specialized jobs in one location
What is the Factory System?
Entrepreneurship, Competition, PrivateProperty, Profit Motive and Consumer Choice are all part of this system
What is the Free Enterprise System?
Allowed people to communicate with each other over large distances
What is the Telegraph?
Pushed for improved conditions for those serving time for crimes
What is the Prison Reform?
Two people who were instrumental in the expansion of women's rights and the push for women's suffrage
(HINT: ECS and SBA)
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
The Hudson River School Artists were influenced by this...
What is the natural landscape of the United States?
The Second Great Awakening inspired
What is Social Reforms?
Allowed for identical goods to be made in mass quantities and easily replaced
What is Interchangeable Parts?
Pushed for improved working conditions, minimum pay, and length of work day
What is the Labor Reform?
Lead abolitionist who published the Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Established the belief that every child deserves a free public schooling
What is the Educational Reform?
The Irish and Chinese immigrants are best remembered for building the railroads in this region
What is the Western Region?
What is the South?
Encouraged the establishment of hospitals for the mentally disabled
What is the Care of the Disabled Movement?
Fought to create legislation to help with prison conditions
The completion of this played a key role in New York City becoming a vital commercial center with the country's busiest seaport
What is the Erie Canal?
The name of William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper
What is the Liberator?