Industry and Economy
This revolution transformed the United States into an urbanized, industrialized superpower.
What is the American Industrial Revolution?
A usually abusive and labor system where workers were forced to work without pay.
What is Slavery?
What is the place were people are crowded in houses?
What are Tenements?
This revolution included drastically reducing shipping times and costs, the building of roads and canals, and the inventions of turnpikes and steamboats.
What is the American Transportation Revolution?
The production of substantial amounts of products in a steady flow.
What is Mass Production?
The breakneck speed of this process caused health risks to the working-class: severe overcrowding, poor plumbing and sanitation, high levels of air and noise pollution.
What is Urbanization?
What is a large farm run predominantly by slaves called?
Plantations
The first great wave of this event in the United States took place in 1820-1880, dominated by Northern and Western Europeans.
What is Immigration?
With the invention of this mode of transportation, Americans could travel across the continent in four just days, compared to the four to six months by wagon or carriage.
What is a Railroad?
The name of the tool that rapidly speeds cotton cleaning.
What is the cotton gin
Known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," this inventor was an English immigrant who invented the first water-powered cotton spinning mill in America.
Who is Samuel Slater?
What was the South referred to as during this time period?
Cotten Kingdom or King Cotten
What is ending slavery usually called?
What is Abolition
Inventor Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first official message via this device, famously reading "What hath God wrought!"
What is a Telegraph?
This mode of transportation enabled two-way traffic on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Hudson rivers by replacing slow flatboats.
What is a Steamboat?
An American inventor who developed the cotton gin; also contributed to the concept of interchangeable parts within factories.
What is Eli Whitney
How many people did slaves count as?
What are anti-immigrant beliefs?
What is Nativism?
A 363-mile canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean completed in 1825.
What is the Erie Canal?
Because parts were uniform, broken items could be easily fixed with replacement pieces rather than needing total replacement.
What is Interchangeable Factory Parts?
Developed by the Boston Manufacturing Company, this method integrated all phases of textile manufacturing into a single centralized factory.
What is the Lowell System?
An intense loyalty triggered by economic, cultural, and political differences to one's own region -- North, South, or West.
This nation-wide movement sucessfully transformed from advocating moderate drinking to demanting complete legal prohibition of alcohol.
What is the Temperance movement?
Thousands of travelers headed west over the the Allegheny Mountains becuase of this major road built entirely with federal funds.
What is The National Road?
American anti-immigrant beliefs were predominantly against what ethnic group?
What is Irish?