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Title: What is a Lowell Girl?


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  • What is a Lowell Girl?

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  • Someone who worked in a mill and then returned
    home to get married.

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  • Who invented the Cotton Gin?

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  • Eli Whitney

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  • The industrial revolution happed when they
    started to use THIS system.

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  • The Factory System

7
  • The factory system is when you put these two
    things together.

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  • Workers and machines

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  • Why was Lowell, Massachusetts considered a model
    factory town?

10
  • clean factories and housing

11
  • What three things occurred because of the
    invention of the Cotton Gin?

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  • expansion of slavery
  • the increase in cotton profits
  • cotton production stretching to Texas

13
  • What is a strike?

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  • Refusal to work to get better working conditions.

15
  • Who came up with the idea of Interchangeable
    parts?

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  • Eli Whitney

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  • What is urbanization?

18
  • Moving from farm to cities

19
  • What is Suffrage?

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  • The right to vote

21
  • What did the Second great awakening stress?

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  • free will

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  • What was the Temperance Movement?

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  • Reform movement to end alcohol consumption.

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  • What did Horace Mann do?

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  • Led the reform for more and better schools

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  • What two things did Dorothea Dix do?

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  • 1. improve the conditions for the mentally ill
  • 2. Improve the condition of prisons

29
  • Universal Suffrage was the main goal of what
    reform movement?

30
  • Womens rights movement

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  • What convention did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
    Cady Stanton organize?

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  • Seneca Falls Convention

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  • What abolitionist sisters werent allowed to
    speak in public because they were women?

34
  • Sarah and Angelia Grimke

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  • Who read The Declaration of Sentiments?

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  • James Mott

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  • Someone who wants to abolish slavery

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  • abolitionist

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  • What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?

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  • Uncle Toms Cabin

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  • What did Harriet Tubman do?

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  • Led the underground railroad

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  • Who wrote many books and gave speeches about the
    injustice of Slavery?

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  • Frederick Douglass
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