Standard SSUSH 7
Students will explain the process of economic growth, its regional and
national impact in the first half of the 19
th
century, and the different
responses to it.
a) Explain the impact of the Industrial Revolution as seen in Eli Whitneys
invention of the cotton gin and his development of interchangeable
parts for muskets.
b) Describe the westward growth of the United States; include the
emerging concept of Manifest Destiny.
c) Describe reform movements, specifically temperance movement,
abolitionism, and public school reform.
d) Explain efforts to gain womens suffrage; include Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and the Seneca Falls Conference.
e) Explain Jacksonian Democracy, expanding suffrage, the rise of popular
political culture, and the development of American nationalism.
Manifest Destiny
Belief that God has destined America to
stretch across continent from sea to shining
sea
John OSullivan coined the term
Idea would be used for American imperialism
in the Pacific
Industrial Revolution
Dramatic changes in how people lived and worked in America
From hand-made to machine-made/ From farms to factories /
From rural to urban living
Positive changes more, better, cheaper goods, rise of cities
Negative changes pollution, city corruption, labor abuses
Eli Whitney
Interchangeable Parts foundation for
Industrialization Muskets
Cotton gin kept South agricultural, increase use
of slavery
Temperance Movement
Anti-Alcohol social movement Before the Civil War
One of the reform movements inspired by the Second
Great Awakening
From preaching to government action/laws
Women involved in reform movement, in great numbers.
Abolitionism
Inspired by Second Great Awakening many
advocated for immediate end of slavery
Pushed North and South further apart
Free Soilers no westward expansion of slavery
Movement considered a cause of Civil War
Public School Reform
First public schools New England colonies,
Land Ordinance 1785
Horace Mann advocate for Public Schools
North public schools South private tutors
The Beginning of Women's Rights.
Womens Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived in Seneca Falls with her
husband and children. In 1840, she attended the World
Anti-Slavery Convention in London. None of the
women delegates to the convention were allowed to
speak at the meeting. They were all forced to sit
behind a curtain.
We do not propose to petition the
legislature to make our husbands
just, generous, and courteous, to
seat every man at the head of a
cradle, and to clothe every woman
in male attire.
At the Seneca Falls
convention, Stanton read
the "Declaration of
Sentiments" to the
assembly. This document
was based on the
Declaration of
Independence, and it
argued that women and
men should be treated
equally.
Jacksonian Democracy
American Nationalism
