0802 Second Great Awakening
The Second Great Awakening, a religious movement during the early 1800s, helped shape the Reform Era, from about 1815 to 1860. During this period, Americans worked for social reforms to improve prisons, care for the disabled, and education.
0801 Antebellum Unit Overview
0711 Industrial Revolution Unit Assessment Review
0710 Industrial Unit Assessment
0709 Industrial Unit Review
0708 Slavery
The lives of enslaved African Americans were determined by strict laws and the practices of individual slave owners. Conditions varied from plantation to plantation. Some owners made sure their enslaved workers had clean cabins, decent food, and warm clothes. Other planters spent as little as possible on their enslaved workers.
0707 Southern Culture
The Old South is often pictured as a land of vast plantations worked by hundreds of enslaved African Americans. Such grand estates did exist in the South. However, most white southerners were not rich planters. In fact, most whites did not own any enslaved African Americans at all.
0706 Cotton Kingdom
Slavery shaped the economy of the South and affected the lives of all southerners. For African Americans, slavery caused intense hardship that only few overcame. The South was devoted to agriculture, and especially to cotton farming. Its agricultural economy depended on slave labor. These two facts shaped much of life in the South.
0705 Workers and Minorities
Factories of the 1840s and 1850s were very different from the mills of the early 1800s. As industrialization grew, life changed for workers. The factories were larger, and they used steam-powered machines. Laborers work longer hours for lower wages. Usually, workers lived in dark, dingy houses in the shadow of the factory.
0704 Tech Innovations
After the Civil War, the United States rapidly transformed into an industrialized and urbanized nation. As an independent nation, the United States has encouraged science and innovation. In 1880, the most inventive activity was the result of inventors operating outside the boundaries of firms. The impact of innovation on economic growth has typically been large. […]
