Temperance Movement

1
Temperance Movement

• These reformers hoped to eliminate alcohol

2
Technology

• Scientific inventions that simplify work

3
Mary Lyon

• Founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

4
Erie Canal

• Human-made waterway linking Albany and Buffalo in
  New York

5
Cities

• Often threatened by epidemics and fire

6
Irish immigrants

• Came to the U.S. when their potato crop failed

7
Susan B. Anthony

• Leader of the suffrage movement in the 1800s

8
Industrial Revolution

• First began around 1800 in U.S. in New England

9
Transcendentalists

• Included Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
  and Henry David Thoreau

10
Trade unions

• Organizations of workers who wanted to improve
  working conditions

11
Steamboats

• Allowed passengers and cargo to travel against
  the current

12
Sarah G. Bagley

• Weaver who founded the Lowell Female labor Reform
  Organization

13
Industrial Revolution

• People left their homes and farms to work in
  mills and earn wages

14
Seneca Falls Convention

• Womans rights meeting that issued a Declaration
  of Sentiments

15
Factories

• Often had dangerous working conditions

16
Horace Mann

• A leader of educational reform

17
Free Enterprise

• A system in which people are free to buy, sell,
  and produce

18
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Leader of the suffrage movement in the 1800s

19
Utopia

• New Harmony, Indiana

20
Cotton gin

• Allowed one worker to clean cotton as fast as 50
  people working by hand