Unit 7 Study Guide

A big religious movement in the early 1800s that inspired people to make positive changes in society.

• 1st Great Awakening

• 2nd Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

• The Great Schism

The inventor of the mechanical reaper, a machine that made harvesting crops faster and easier.

• Eli Whitney

• Cyrus McCormick

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

Young women who worked in Lowell, Massachusetts, making cloth in factories under tough conditions.

• Lowell mill girls

• Factory workers

• Textile laborers

• Industrial seamstresses

An inventor who made the cotton gin and also helped create machines that made parts exactly the same.

• Eli Whitney

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Ford

An enslaved preacher who led a rebellion in Virginia in 1831, which led to stricter laws against slaves.

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• Gabriel Prosser

A big waterway built in 1825 that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, making it easier to ship goods.

• Erie Canal

• Panama Canal

• Suez Canal

• Mississippi River

Caring more about your own area of the country than the whole country, which led to arguments and problems.

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Patriotism

• Regionalism

A fort in Texas where a small group of Texans fought bravely against a large Mexican army in 1836.

• Alamo

• Goliad

• San Antonio

• Fort Worth

A machine made by Eli Whitney that cleaned seeds out of cotton quickly, making cotton farming much easier.

• Cotton gin

• Spinning jenny

• Power loom

• Seed drill

A writer and thinker who led the Transcendentalist movement and wrote about being true to yourself.

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Walt Whitman