Packet Notes

1. The 1840's was a very key time of transportation improvements including buildings of canals, railroads, and plank roads

2. Young boys were forced to work at young ages under harsh conditions.

3. Women decided to strike. Some of the most significant included: the Seneca Falls Convention, Dorthea Dix, and the Grimke sisters.

4. The idea of Utopian ideas began to flourish (Armana Church Society)

5. Transcendentalism contains many different ideas.