https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec en-us 2017-03-29 21:37:47 UTC 2025-11-20 20:16:54 UTC hello@padlet.com oliviahenyan https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559734 The Industrial Revolution was a time period where new inventions were being invented. Some of these inventions were cotton gin, textile mill, power loom, and the steam engine. The cotton gin was an invention that made separating cotton fibers and the seeds easier. This meant that one slave can do the work of 60 slaves. The only downside to the cotton gin was that it encouraged slavery. Textile mills are where different fabrics are produced or processed. This was a good thing because many clothes could be produced faster. The mills ran on water which meant they had to be build on rivers. A power loom is a mechanized loom powered by a line shaft. The power loom helped produce cloth faster. Also, children would be able to use the machine. Now, the power loom put weavers out of business and the loom was not improved enough to be practical until the 1820s. The steam engine is a heat engine that preforms mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. A good thing about the steam engine was it would be able to go upstream and they were able to transport things faster. Some bad things about the steam engine was that it caused pollution. 

Caption: This is what a cotton gin looks like. ]]> 2017-03-29 21:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559734 oliviahenyan https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559779 Sectionalism is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole. In the US, sectionalism was between differences in economy and population.  Economy was a big difference in the US because the South had really good fertile land to grow crops. Although the North did have some farms, the main focus was on manufacturing. The farms in the South mostly grew tobacco. The South was able to export these crops to different parts of the country and different countries, the only downside was they had to pay a tax on these goods. The North would have cotton shipped to them and make new clothes out of it. Population was another big difference in the US because the North had more of a free population than the South due to slaves. The North had 3x as many free people as in the South. The South had over a third of slaves that make up the population. The South feared that the North would have more political power, which could hurt the slavery going on in the South. Many Northern states had abolished slavery because it was against the Constitution/Christian faith. 

Caption: This picture shows many of the reasons that lead to sectionalism in the US.]]> 2017-03-29 21:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559779 oliviahenyan https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559836 Slaves during the 1800s had to live in cabins with 10-12 people, they also didn't have furniture. They also were not given enough food to eat, which lead to many going starving. Now as for clothing, they had clothes made of homespun linen or rough negro cloth. While slaves were working three-quarters of rural slaves were field hands who toiled from dawn to dark tending crops. Although some slaves did have chances to run away, many could never look forward to an easier life. Some slaveholders used harsh punishments such as whipping, beating, branding, and other forms of torture. The Nat Turner's Rebellion was a slave rebellion that took place in Virginia. People who took part in this, killed every white person they could find, they killed a total of 57 people in 2 days with axes and guns. Slaves who wanted to escape used the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a network of people, homes, and hideouts that slaves used to escape to the North and Canada. The Fugitive Slave Act was a law that required any slaves that had been caught to be returned to their slaveholders.

Caption: This is slaves working in what seems to be a cotton field. ]]> 2017-03-29 21:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559836 oliviahenyan https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559880 Manifest Destiny was the belief that the US had the "God-given" right to expand west. As time went on, the US was beginning to grow, we started to grow west. We got Texas after it won its independence from Mexico, it asked the US to be admitted as a state. We got the Oregon Territory after President Polk negotiated with Britain to divide the Oregon Country into two parts. We got the Mexican Cession after the Mexican-American War. Finally, we got the Gadsden Purchase after negotiating with Mexico, spending $10 million. 
Women Pioneers moved west to find homesteads, husbands, or other new opportunities. Mormons moved west to escape religious persecution and also wanted to find a place where they could practice freely. Missionaries started going west to spread Christianity to natives and other people. 

Caption: This is a woman pioneer doing some hardwork moving rocks. ]]> 2017-03-29 21:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163559880 oliviahenyan https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163560032 Women's Rights -- Women in the 1800s could not vote, hold office and own property.  The Seneca Falls Convention was a gathering of women's rights supporters in July 1848. These supporters helped launched the movement of women's rights to vote and the also wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. 
Abolition -- Abolitionists used strategies such as revolts, peaceful ways, and wanted to give slaveholders time to develop farming methods that didn't rely on slaves. Some of the leaders of the abolitionist movement were Frederick Douglass, Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, and William Lloyd Garrison.
Temperance -- The goal of the temperance movement was to regulate the amount of alcohol people were drinking and to possibly ban the manufacture, selling, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
Prison/Education -- Dorothea Dix went to the jail to teach Sunday school to women prisoners. When she got there she saw all of the bad things that were happening, she wanted to help. She started with a court appeal to expand a nearby mental hospital. She then went to other prisons and convinced state governments to improve the living quarters and create mental hospitals/juvenile detention centers. Horace Mann helped improve the school system by making the school year longer, getting teachers a bigger pay, and having teachers be trained. 

Caption: This is women speaking out for the right for women to vote. ]]> 2017-03-29 21:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163560032 oliviahenyan https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163560168 Women's Rights -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM1czS_VYDI
Manifest Destiny -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japRb6U_FuQ]]> 2017-03-29 21:42:30 UTC https://padlet.com/oliviahenyan/losc2c3z66ec/wish/163560168