Us History People Early To Mid 1800S

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Samuel Slater

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Father of the Factory System; he escaped Britain with memorized plans for building textile machinery

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Eli Whitney

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Inventor of Interchangeable Parts and the cotton gin

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Elias Howe

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Invented the sewing machine. This majorly boosted operations in New England for clothing production

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Samuel F.B. Morse

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Invented the telegraph- made communication much easier, faster, and more dependable especially across long distances

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Wage Slaves

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First factory workers who were forced by law to not have unions to raise wages. Labor reform was on its way though

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Lowell Girls

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The daughters of poor farming families who were sent into the city (Lowell, MA) to make money for the family. They were given poor conditions in factories.

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Catharine Beecher

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urged women to enter the teaching profession. Here efforts payed off as schools bacame dominated by female teachers.

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John Deere

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Created a steel plowe in 1837

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Cyrus McCormick

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Invented the Reaper

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Lancaster Turnpike

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A hard-surfaced highway from Philadelphia to Lancaster, while traveling on it one had to pay a toll. Made in the 1790s, it was one of the first turnpikes, it was very succesful producing 15% revenue to investors

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Robert Fulton

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Kicked of the steamboat revolution with his steam power boat the Clermont in 1807. Quicker transportation, goes both up an down stream!

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"Clintons Big Ditch"- aka the Erie Canal

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Huge Canal stretching from Buffalo to past Albany at the Hudson. Reduced shipping prices by $95 increased shipping speed, encouraged MidWest farming in Indiana, Ohio, Illionios, etc

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RailRoads

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first one in 1828, at first not accepted for being too unsafe and taking away from Erie Canal investors, but eventually accepted

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Cyrus Field

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Stretched a wire underneath the atlantic connecting US and Europe.

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Pony Express

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A mail service that died out after 18 months due to lack of profits.

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Finney and Cartwright

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Two of the great revivalist christian preachers who spoke at camp meetings

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Joseph Smith

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Prophet of the Mormon Faith, was killed because of controversial beliefs concerning polygamy

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Bringham Young

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Took over when Joseph Smith was murdered. Led his people to Salt Lake City where they created a thriving community w/ a booming population

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Horace Mann

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Campaigned for an improved public schooling system, before him most teachers were drastically unqualified to teach, he was sec. of board of education in MA

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Noah Webster

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Wrote textbooks and dictionaries that helped improve the quality of learning in public schools

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Public Secondary Schools

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University of VA was made by Thomas Jefferson. More public secondary schools were popping up in the South w/ the education reform

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Emma Willard

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By 1820 Emma Willard help to bring integrity to women's colleges. She started the respectable school Troy Female Seminary

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Mary Lyon

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Started Mount Holyoke Seminary. A very well respected women's college.

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Dorothy Dix

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Went across the country touring different asylums. She was a key player in jail reform and mental health reform

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The American Temperance Society

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Formed in 1826, it moved to make alcohol illegal

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Neal S. Dow

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Father of the Temperance movement, supported the Maine Law of 1851

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Lucretia Mott

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A quaker who was a prominant feminist

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Very prominant feminist who advocated for women's suffrage

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Elizabeth Blackwell

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First female graduate of medical school

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Seneca Falls Convention

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Put on by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she delcared Her Declaration of Sentiments at her woman's rights convention in Seneca Falls NY.

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Washington Irving

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Part of the Transcendental movement, he was one the first American author to recieve internation recognition for his book: KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK

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James Cooper

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Wrote THE SPY. Sold widely among Europeans

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Oliver Holmes

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wrote the poem THE LAST LEAF

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Herman Melville

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