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8th Grade Unit 8 CBA Review
Term | Definition |
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Laissez-Faire | Allows businesses to be unregulated |
Mark Twain | Wrote about small town life in the South |
Cotton Gin | Led to an increase in slavery |
Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott | Wrote publications about women's rights |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Wrote "Declaration of Sentiments" and fought for women's rights |
Slavery | Increased due to demand for cotton in northern textile mills |
Railroads and Canals | Moved goods and people quickly |
Steam Power | led to a growth in industry |
Walt Whitman | Transcendentalist who wrote "Leaves of Grass" |
Second Great Awakening | time of religious revival and led to social changes and reform |
Mentally Ill reforms | Reformers wanted to build hospitals for them |
Urban | City, many factories, immigrants worked in factories |
Rural | Agriculture and slaves |
Industrialization in the 1800s | increased population, natural resources, and developments in transportation |
Women in workplace | the factory system allowed for young women to get jobs in urban areas. |
Abolition Movement | Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and the Underground Railroad |
Seneca Falls | Convention where Stanton read "Declaration of Sentiments" and fought for women's rights and suffrage |
Railraod | Led to a national market for goods |
Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
Know-Nothing Party | started due to anti-immigration feelings |
Entrepreneurs | expect profit and their private property to be protected |
Transcendentalists | Used nature as a subject in their work |
Henry David Thoreau | Civil disobedience by not paying his taxes |
Frederick Douglass | Abolitionist who spoke about his life as a slave |
New Immigrants | Came to U.S. due to demand for factory labor |