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What is a Lowell Girl?

What is a Lowell Girl?. Someone who worked in a mill and then returned home to get married. Who invented the Cotton Gin?. Eli Whitney. The industrial revolution happed when they started to use THIS system. The Factory System. The factory system is when you put these two things together.

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What is a Lowell Girl?

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  1. What is a Lowell Girl?

  2. Someone who worked in a mill and then returned home to get married.

  3. Who invented the Cotton Gin?

  4. Eli Whitney

  5. The industrial revolution happed when they started to use THIS system.

  6. The Factory System

  7. The factory system is when you put these two things together.

  8. Workers and machines

  9. Why was Lowell, Massachusetts considered a model factory town?

  10. clean factories and housing

  11. What three things occurred because of the invention of the Cotton Gin?

  12. expansion of slavery • the increase in cotton profits • cotton production stretching to Texas

  13. What is a strike?

  14. Refusal to work to get better working conditions.

  15. Who came up with the idea of Interchangeable parts?

  16. Eli Whitney

  17. What is urbanization?

  18. Moving from farm to cities

  19. What is Suffrage?

  20. The right to vote

  21. What did the Second great awakening stress?

  22. free will

  23. What was the Temperance Movement?

  24. Reform movement to end alcohol consumption.

  25. What did Horace Mann do?

  26. Led the reform for more and better schools

  27. What two things did Dorothea Dix do?

  28. 1. improve the conditions for the mentally ill 2. Improve the condition of prisons

  29. Universal Suffrage was the main goal of what reform movement?

  30. Women’s rights movement

  31. What convention did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize?

  32. Seneca Falls Convention

  33. What abolitionist sisters weren’t allowed to speak in public because they were women?

  34. Sarah and Angelia Grimke

  35. Who read “The Declaration of Sentiments”?

  36. James Mott

  37. Someone who wants to abolish slavery

  38. abolitionist

  39. What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

  40. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

  41. What did Harriet Tubman do?

  42. Led the underground railroad

  43. Who wrote many books and gave speeches about the injustice of Slavery?

  44. Frederick Douglass

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