Semester 2 Final Study Guide Flashcards
Who helped the creation of free public education?
Horace Mann
Who worked in the factories and mills?
Women and kids
Hat region did industrialization have the largest impact on?
The Norh
How many pounds of cotton a day could the cotton gin clean
50 pounds of cotton
What contributed to a lower life expectancy during the Industrial Revolution?
It was unsafe and unhealthy to the lungs
Who were the leaders of the Women Rights Movement at the Seneca Fall Convention and have issues did they support?
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton
What problems did Western Expansion cause?
It moved the Native Americans out
What river did the U.S want access to that caused the Mexican American War?
Rio Grande
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Passed the 13th Amendment
13 Amendment
Abolished slavery
15th amendment
Right to vote
What jobs did former slaves in Texas have?
Cowboys and farmers
Chinese’s immigrants played an important role in the building of what?
The rail road
What happened at the battle of wounded knee in 1890?
They were slaughter
Where did immigrants end up living once they came to the U.S?
New York
