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Ch 8 - The North
Vocab, people, and places from Chapter 8. Mr. O'Dell, MTMS, Social Studies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's rights leader in the late 1800's who died in 1906 before women got the right to vote |
| Albany | the Clermont steamed up the Hudson River from New York City to this city |
| Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe | advanced the cause of the visually impaired; developed books with large raised letters that people with sight impairments could "read" with their fingers |
| Erie Canal | this artificial waterway measured 363-miles long; it connected New York City and Buffalo |
| Dorothea Dix | schoolteacher who made it her life's work to educate the public about the poor conditions for both the mentally ill and for prisoners |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | accepted by Geneva Medical College in New York; graduated at the head of her class; well known female physician |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | a female abolitionist who joined forces with Lucretia Mott to work for women's rights; helped organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York |
| Emily Dickinson | the best-remembered woman poet of the era; wrote simple, personal, deeply emotional poetry |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | opened a textile plant in Waltham, Massachusetts; his mill launched the factory system |
| Horace Mann | leader of educational reform; a lawyer who became the head of the Massachusetts Board of Education |
| Hudson River | the Clermont steamed up this river from New York City on its way to Albany, New York |
| Lucretia Mott | Philadelphia reformer and abolitionist; helped fugitive slaves, organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York |
| Robert Fulton | Robert Livingston hired him to develop a steamboat with a powerful engine; built the Clermont |
| interchangeable parts | making goods all the same, allows the use of less-skilled labor |
| technology | scientific discoveries that simplify work |
| patent | the sole legal right to making money off an invention |
| factory system | where all manufacturing steps happen in one place |
| census | the official count of population |
| turnpike | required travelers to pay use a road |
| National Road | connection to the East built by Ohio’s request |
| steamboat | new technology that helped river cities grow |
| utopias | based on a vision of a perfect society |
| the Second Great Awakening | wave of religious fervor |
| temperance movement | war against alcoholic beverages |
| transcendentalists | writers that stressed the relationship between humans and nature |
| normal school | trained high school graduates as teachers |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| strike | when workers refuse to work, was illegal in the early 1800s |
| prejudice | unfair opinion of people not based on facts |
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