what is a lowell girl?
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What is a Lowell Girl?. Someone who worked in a mill and then returned home to get married. Who invented the Cotton Gin?. Eli Whitney. The industrial revolution happed when they started to use THIS system. The Factory System. The factory system is when you put these two things together. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• What is a Lowell Girl?
• Someone who worked in a mill and then returned home to get married.
• Who invented the Cotton Gin?
• Eli Whitney
• The industrial revolution happed when they started to use THIS system.
• The Factory System
• The factory system is when you put these two things together.
• Workers and machines
• Why was Lowell, Massachusetts considered a model factory town?
• clean factories and housing
• What three things occurred because of the invention of the Cotton Gin?
• expansion of slavery• the increase in cotton profits• cotton production stretching to
Texas
• What is a strike?
• Refusal to work to get better working conditions.
• Who came up with the idea of Interchangeable parts?
• Eli Whitney
• What is urbanization?
• Moving from farm to cities
What is Suffrage?
The right to vote
What did the Second great awakening stress?
free will
What was the Temperance Movement?
Reform movement to end alcohol consumption.
What did Horace Mann do?
Led the reform for more and better schools
What two things did Dorothea Dix do?
1. improve the conditions for the mentally ill
2. Improve the condition of prisons
Universal Suffrage was the main goal of what reform movement?
Women’s rights movement
What convention did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize?
Seneca Falls Convention
What abolitionist sisters weren’t allowed to speak in public because they were women?
Sarah and Angelia Grimke
Who read “The Declaration of Sentiments”?
James Mott
Someone who wants to abolish slavery
abolitionist
What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
What did Harriet Tubman do?
Led the underground railroad
Who wrote many books and gave speeches about the injustice of Slavery?
Frederick Douglass