Geography of the North and the South
The North
The South
Industrialization
Immigration
100
River used widely for travel in the South.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
Name two resources available in the North (not the South) that allowed for more industry.
What is natural resources, population and railroads.
100
Invention that helped goods travel up the Mississippi River.
What is the steamboat?
100
Inventor of the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
Reasons an immigrant leaves a country.
What is a push factor?
200
Large plantations growing cash crops.
What is the South?
200
The movement from hands making goods to machines making goods.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
The rise in the slave population is in direct correlation with the rise of this product.
What is cotton?
200
Father of the American Industrial Revolution.
Who is Samuel Slater?
200
Group of people that immigrated to the United in large numbers after Revolutions disrupted the economics of that area.
What is the German immigrant?
300
Four distinct seasons with extreme temperatures.
What is the North?
300
Area in the North where Industrial Revolution begins.
What is Rhode Island/Massachusetts?
300
Large farms that produced cash crops.
What is a plantation?
300
Name two ingredients necessary for Industrialization to occur.
Answers will vary.
300
Political party that formed on an anti immigrant platform.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
400
The large mountain range that slows travel in the North?
What is the Appalachian mountains?
400
The reason why Industrialization only occurs after 1814 in the United States.
What is the War of 1812 ends. (free trade/safe trade on the seas)
400
Two inventions will largely help farmers with the ability to mass produce crops in the 1800s. Name one of them.
What is the mechanical reaper or the steel tipped plow?
400
New type of factory (known as the factory system) where all work needed to complete the process from raw material to finished goods occurred.
What is the Lowell factories?
400
Name two pull factors.
Answers will vary
500
Canal constructed in the North to overcome the geographic issues of slow travel because of mountains and connect the Great Lakes and the Hudson river.
What is the Erie Canal?
500
The North to move passed geographic barriers provided new methods of traveling. (bringing a revolution in transportation) Name two of the three inventions/innovations that help travel in the north?
What is the railroad, the canal and the National Road?
500
Major Southern trading partner BESIDES the North.
What is Great Britain?
500
Pre-industrial cloth production made in the home using a spinning wheel and loom.
What is the domestic system or the cottage industry?
500
The idea that all cultures should blend into American culture through immigration.
What is a melting pot?
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