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 |