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