1. The Northeast was one of the first to industrialize because it was the first to have factories. Factories was what made the Industrialist Revolution take off. Their success helped promote more machines. Before steam, the North used water from rivers for their mills. America overall had an abundance of natural resources compared to Europe, however the South had plantations and cash crops. They focused on producing large-scale agriculture verses subsistence, like in the North. Also, in the South there were many wealthy plantation owners that wanted the profits from agriculture and had slaves, which they believed was cheaper, for their work. In the North however, the women, like the Lowell girls, helped the factories work by being motivated
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Women were at the forefront of social movements because they started to feel more importance with small jobs and they were the ones dealing with drunk husbands and were in charge of their families, known in Republican motherhood. They knew how homes should run and what they wanted. Temperance was important to them because their husbands went and worked for their family and they needed to be sober for their jobs and not come home angry and drunk. When women started getting jobs in factories, they felt that they should have more rights since they were making money just like men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the Seneca Falls convention to promote woman 's rights. During the same time, the abolitionist movement was happening. Women, already fighting for their own rights, also contributed because they felt the injustice as …show more content…
The Second Great Awakening influenced social reform because the new ideas expressed were about the social order that was happening. Preachers focused more on social ideas. It included slaves, poverty, and alcohol. Many people were inspired to change by the pastors messages and wanted society to be better. At the same time, women were already feeling more importance with having a job and they were the majority of people who went to church so this led to them leading many social reforms, as previously
Women were at the forefront of social movements because they started to feel more importance with small jobs and they were the ones dealing with drunk husbands and were in charge of their families, known in Republican motherhood. They knew how homes should run and what they wanted. Temperance was important to them because their husbands went and worked for their family and they needed to be sober for their jobs and not come home angry and drunk. When women started getting jobs in factories, they felt that they should have more rights since they were making money just like men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton had the Seneca Falls convention to promote woman 's rights. During the same time, the abolitionist movement was happening. Women, already fighting for their own rights, also contributed because they felt the injustice as …show more content…
The Second Great Awakening influenced social reform because the new ideas expressed were about the social order that was happening. Preachers focused more on social ideas. It included slaves, poverty, and alcohol. Many people were inspired to change by the pastors messages and wanted society to be better. At the same time, women were already feeling more importance with having a job and they were the majority of people who went to church so this led to them leading many social reforms, as previously