Industrial Revolution
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Vocabulary
Problems
100
A device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
100
Toll Road
What is a turnpike?
100
Inventor of the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
The denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people.
What is discrimination?
100
Free African Americans were not allowed to do these two things.
What is 1. Send kids to public school. 2. Serve on Juries 3. Testify against white defendants 4. Vote
200
A spiked cylinder used to remove seeds from cotton fibers that increased cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Channel that is dug across land and filled with water.
What is a canal?
200
Ladies that worked at a mills and lived in housing provided by the owner of the factory.
Who are the Lowell girls?
200
People who wanted to preserve the country for white, American-born Protestants and limit immigration.
What are nativists?
200
This maintained the balance of free and slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
The Industrial Revolution began in this industry.
What is textiles?
300
A new form of transportation that linked towns and factories together that didn't require water.
What are railroads?
300
Apprentice from England who memorized how to build a steam powered textile mill and brought the textile industry to the United States.
Who is Samuel Slater?
300
Laws that controlled every aspect of a slave's life.
What are slave codes?
300
This happened in 1808 to aid in the fight against slavery.
What is importing slaves from Africa became illegal?
400
Two ways the Industrial Revolution changed the United States.
What is 1. People moved from farms to towns (factories) 2. Cities grew 3. People made things with machines and not by hand 3. More goods could be produced 4. Products were cheaper since they were mass produced...
400
path through the Appalachian Mountains people used to travel west.
What is Wilderness Road?
400
Nativists formed this political party in the New York.
What is the Know Nothings?
400
A system developed by Eli Whitney where identical pieces could be assembled quickly by unskilled workers.
What is Interchangeable Parts?
400
Two of the four terms of the Missouri Compromise.
What is 1. Maine is Free State 2. Missouri is Slave State 3. All states north of the southern border of Missouri are free of slavery 4. Slave owners could pursue slaves who escaped into free territory
500
A reliable source of power during the Industrial Revolution that didn't need to be near rivers.
What is steam power?
500
Allowed farmers from the midwest to ship their goods to New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
500
Person who proposed the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
Growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
500
People associated with production of this crop became rich in the south.
What is cotton?
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