1. Women in Society -cult of domesticity husband, children, home, church - Housework & childcare = only proper activities for women -could not vote in most places -could not own property or keep wages if husband lived

2. Reformers -Abolitionists / Suffrage (anti Slavery) (Women Vote) Grimke sisters - Sarah and Angelia - Daughters of a SC slaveholder - spoke eloquently for Abolition & gender inequality

3. Women’s Reforms -Abolitionists / Suffrage Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Stanton -1848, 1 st ever women’s rights convention= Seneca Falls Convention -The Declaration of Sentiments, -Discussed women’s rights (the right to vote)…………… - and abolition

4. Women’s Reforms -Abolitionists / Suffrage Grimke sisters Lucretia Mott Elizabeth Stanton Susan B. Anthony Sojourner Truth -Temperance move to ban alcohol

5. Women’s Reforms -Abolitionists / Suffrage Sojourner Truth - Isabella Baumfree - Slave 30yrs - Decided to Sojourn (travel) throughout the country and preach for abolition

7. Women’s Reforms - -Temperance move to ban alcohol - Prohibit the drinking of alcohol - *influence of churches and the women’s rights movement *until the 1840s doctors does their patients with whiskey or brandy before operating.

8. Women’s Movement -women saw increased opportunities in reform movements -Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 “Declaration of Sentiments” *”We hold these truths to be self- evident: that all men AND women are created equal”

9. Women’s Movement -women saw increased opportunities in reform movements -Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 “Declaration of Sentiments”

10. Reforms -Women’s Education Catherine Beecher – national survey of women’s health Oberlin College – 1 st coed college 1837 -Health Reform Elizabeth Blackwell - 1 st women to graduate from medical school, **later opened the NY infirmary for Women and children Amelia Bloomer -publisher of a temperance newspaper - *Rebelled against corsets & invented “bloomers” (loose fitting pants, tied around the ankles & covered by a short skirt)

11. Markets Expand

12. Transportation Changes -Robert Fulton steam powered ships - Clermont 1807 -many canals were built after Erie was completed 1816: 100 to 3,300 miles (25 yrs later ) -growth of railroads

13. Transportation Changes -growth of railroads *Advantages: 1. Operate in the winter 2. Bring goods inward - Exciting speeds, yet far from comfortable pg- 278 *10,000 miles of track by 1859

14. Inventions Improve Life -Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber 1839 -I.M. Singer sewing machines - drastically reduced the time it took to sew garments -Samuel Morse 1837 telegraph Morse code

15. Agriculture -people began to move into the mid-western parts of the nation -lots of available farm lands -John Deere steel plows -Cyrus McCormick mechanical reaper

16. Changing Workplace -development of industry -decline of skilled labor -growth of urban areas -cost of goods decreased and supply increased

17. Factory System Begins -Lowell textile mills -factory system -company town for young girls pg- 263 -strict control over the workers lives -factory conditions would warn of future problems

18. Working Conditions -long hours low wages -six days a week -poor ventilation and lighting -unsafe working conditions -development of labor unions and strikes- joined together and refused to go to work!

19. Immigration -lots of immigration in the mid 1800’s -mostly Irish or German -most immigrants settled in groups -low wages of immigrants caused problems with other workers -Growth of Nativism favoring native-born Americans over immigrants -Know-Nothing Party “I know nothing”