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What became the busiest route for moving people west in the 1820s to 1840s?
The Erie Canal
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A person who leaves a country to live somewhere else is called?
An emigrant
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What does "urban" mean?
City
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When workers protest unsafe and unjust working conditions by refusing to work until their demands are met it is called?
A strike.
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Who was Sarah Bagley? What did she do?
She was a "Lowell girl" who fought for better working conditions in the factories by forming the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.
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With so many more people traveling by the 1830s and 1840s more roads were needed. Roads that charged fees or tolls were called?
Turnpikes
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What contributed to deadly diseases in the crowded cities at this time?
Polluted water and lace of sanitation.
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What were some attractions to urban life for the people?
Movie theaters and concerts as well as book and magazine publishing. Also, there were cafes, libraries etc.
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What were some of the dangers of early trains?
Sparks set fields on fire and early engines sometimes jumped the tracks.
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What did James Hargreaves invent?
The first mechanical spinning wheel, called the "spinning jenny".
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In 1840 the federal government set a workday limit of how many hours a day?
Ten
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Who was Samuel Slater?
Slater brought designs of spinning machines from G.B. and built his own textile factories in New England.
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