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Temperance Movement. These reformers hoped to eliminate alcohol. Technology. Scientific inventions that simplify work. Mary Lyon. Founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Erie Canal. Human-made waterway linking Albany and Buffalo in New York. Cities. Often threatened by epidemics and fire.
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Temperance Movement These reformers hoped to eliminate alcohol
Technology Scientific inventions that simplify work
Mary Lyon Founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Erie Canal Human-made waterway linking Albany and Buffalo in New York
Cities Often threatened by epidemics and fire
Irish immigrants Came to the U.S. when their potato crop failed
Susan B. Anthony Leader of the suffrage movement in the 1800s
Industrial Revolution First began around 1800 in U.S. in New England
Transcendentalists Included Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau
Trade unions Organizations of workers who wanted to improve working conditions
Steamboats Allowed passengers and cargo to travel against the current
Sarah G. Bagley Weaver who founded the Lowell Female labor Reform Organization
Industrial Revolution People left their homes and farms to work in mills and earn wages
Seneca Falls Convention Woman’s rights meeting that issued a Declaration of Sentiments
Factories Often had dangerous working conditions
Horace Mann A leader of educational reform
Free Enterprise A system in which people are free to buy, sell, and produce
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Leader of the suffrage movement in the 1800’s
Utopia New Harmony, Indiana
Cotton gin Allowed one worker to clean cotton as fast as 50 people working by hand