Period Four Part 2 Test Study Guide

Dorthea Dix

________: founded 30 hospitals for the mentally ill and helped with prison reform.

1838

In ________, after Jackson had left office, the U.S. Army forced 15, 000 Cherokees to leave Georgia.

Andrew Jackson

In 1830, ________ signed the Indian Removal Act.

Erie Canal

Dewitt Clinton: developed the ________.

Scarlet Letter

Nathanial Hawthorne: author of the ________ and The House of the Seven Gables.

large numbers of Irish

Nativism grew within the US because of ________ and German immigrants moving to the US.

Suffrage movement

a movement for the right to vote

Isaac Singer

perfected the sewing machine

Nathanial Hawthorne

author of the Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables

Washington Irving

author of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Samuel Slater

father of the factory system, introduced the first water-powered cotton mill

Eli Whitney

invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Cyrus McCormick

invented the mechanical reaper

Robert Fulton

designed and operated the first commercially successful steamboat

Dewitt Clinton

developed the Erie Canal

Dorthea Dix

founded 30 hospitals for the mentally ill and helped with prison reform

Louisa May Alcott

author of Little Women