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Before the War of 1812, the mode of transportation of marketable goods was waterways. Things needed to improve because of limitations and the demand for supply and demand. Roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads began to be constructed.
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Major canal linking the Great Lakes to New York City. Construction began on July 4, 1817. The canal was built to overcome obstacles including the combined ascent and decent of 680 feet between Buffalo and Albany. This canal would secure commercial independence from Europe.
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Employed the Rhode Island Plan (hiring families for the mills and factories) and was a British mechanic who carried plans for textile mills to the United States.
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In 1824 the Supreme Court overturned the New York law granting Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston a monopoily on the New York-New Jersey steamboat trade. This ruling marked the way for new steamboat companies and increased competition.
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The recruited New England farm daughters to work in nearby mills because of the lack of laborers. The girls were housed in boarding houses which enforced curfews, prohitited alcohol, and required church attendance. It gave the girs the chance to be social with other women and gain a sense of independence.
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A depression that struck the United States in May of 1837 because production surpassed demand for goods. The price of goods and wages fell causing bands to be unable to repay depositors, and British investors became suspicious of U.S. loans by withdrawing money from the U.S. People were hungry and unemployeed.
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Thomas D. rice portrayed Jim Crow, who was an old southern slave, in a blackface at the Bowery Theater in New York City in 1833. The minstrel shows encouraged a racist stereotyping of African Americans as sensual and lazy. The costumes were ragged and bad fitting. Actors were white pretending to be black. It was a mockery.
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Leader of the Female Moral Refofrm Society of New York. She investigated asylums, petitioned Massachusetts legislature and lobbied with other states and Congress to improve the conditions for the insane. She encouraged 28 states to build institutions for the mentally ill by 1860.
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Children of the temperance movement enlisted in a movement, started by Reverend Thomas P. Hunt. They would advocate for complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages. They paraded in the streets and marched a public meetings by singing and carrying banners vowing for no alcohol in the mid-1800's.
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First secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. He advocated for a free and tax-supported education that would replace the religious and private schools. He envisioned women (paid less and more morals) to educate the future clerks, farmers and workers. By 1850 most of the native-born Americans were literate.
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