The Reform Era

4. an organisation or group of workers who join together to negotiate pay, hours, benefits, and working conditions.
5. was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
6. an economic system based on the private ownership of capital goods and the means of production
7. was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States
9. an early forerunner of the federal highway system, was constructed from western Maryland to Ohio in the early decades of the 19th century.
10. attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation and discrimination.
11. achieved its goal of winning full voting rights for women when the nineteenth amendment was ratified in 1920.
12. was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
13. one of the most important leaders in the long women's suffrage campaign
14. was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840.
16. a social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcoholic beverages.
19. is primarily concerned with the production of yarn, and cloth and the subsequent design or manufacture of clothing and their distribution.
21. procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.
22. was an activist on behalf of the indigent insane.

1. was a method of manufacturing first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s and later spread abroad.
2. invented by Eli Whitney
3. the physical growth of urban areas as a result of rural migration and even suburban concentration into cities, particularly the very largest ones.
4. also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men
8. THE economic empowerment of women across the rich world is one of the most remarkable revolutions of the past 50 years
15. a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers
17. is a canal in New York that runs about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York,
18. were a means of financing road maintenance by tolls charged on users, named from the gate used to restrict access
20. built the first steamboat