Founding Ideas
This document begins with “We the People.”
What is the Constitution?
This movement fought to end slavery in the U.S.
What is abolition?
The Industrial Revolution began in this country before spreading to the U.S.
What is Great Britain?
These groups were created to protect workers and demand better pay and hours.
What are labor unions?
This term describes the belief that Americans were meant to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The Declaration of Independence was mainly written by this man.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led this movement.
What is the women’s rights movement?
Many people moved from farms to cities for these new kinds of jobs.
What are factory jobs?
Children often worked long hours in factories doing this kind of work.
What is manual labor or dangerous work?
Buffalo Soldiers were African American soldiers who served mainly in this region.
What is the western frontier or the West?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution to protect these.
What are individual freedoms or citizens’ rights?
The temperance movement wanted to limit or ban this.
What is alcohol?
This invention by Eli Whitney made cleaning cotton faster.
What is the cotton gin?
Immigrants from this country built much of the western railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
Homesteaders received land through this 1862 law.
What is the Homestead Act?
This founding idea means people have a voice in government.
What is popular sovereignty or democracy?
Frederick Douglass fought against slavery using this form of communication.
What are speeches and newspapers?
Immigrants often worked in these unsafe, crowded factories.
What are sweatshops?
A worker who organized for better treatment risked losing this.
What is their job or employment?
Westward expansion caused conflict with this group of people already living on the land.
Who are Native Americans?
“All men are created equal” became a key quote for later reformers, especially in this movement.
What is abolition or women’s rights?
This convention in 1848 marked the start of the organized women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The completion of this in 1869 connected the East and West coasts by rail.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This law limited Chinese immigration to the U.S. in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Industrial Revolution and westward expansion both increased this kind of growth across the country.
What is economic or population growth?