Vocabulary
Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, and Indigenous are an examples of this.
What is an ethnic group?
The nation that tried to keep textile mills secret from rival trading nations.
Who is Britain?
The name of the invention that changed communication and the name of the method used to communicate.
What is the telegram? What is Morse Code?
Immigrating through port cities such as Boston or New York City. Fleeing poor harvests, overcrowding, and political unrest. Immigrants of this nation primarily settled in the Midwest.
Who are the Germans?
Reformers were successful at improving conditions of these facilities. The goal was not to punish but to rehabilitate.
What is improving conditions in prisons?
Upper, middle, working/lower are...
What is social classes?
This invention was groundbreaking for the agriculture industry but had negative impacts on the agriculture labor force.
What is the cotton gin?
338 mile waterway, constructed in 1817 and finished in 1825. Used primarily to transport wheat, grain, and flour going eastward. Going westward, was primarily tools, textiles, hardware, and furniture. The state the invent is in.
What is the Eerie Canal? Where is New York?
Journalist who exposed the living conditions of urban slums and tenement housing.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Seen as necessary to develop informed citizens and skilled workers.
What are free public schools?
The different terms for: people who moving from other countries into the United States and people who are moving within the United States.
What is an immigrant? What is a migrant?
Invention used to produce yarn.
What is the spinning jenny?
Name 4 cities that were major hubs for railroads in the 1850s-1870s.
Chicago, Boston, New York City, Cincinnati, Washington D.C.
A push factor for African American migrants.
A pull factor for Chinese immigrants.
African-Americans: Slavecatchers, discrimination, and violence
Chinese: Gold Rush and work on transcontinental railroad
In 1848, this conference was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was attended by both men and women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention/Women's Rights Conference in Seneca Falls, NY?
Explain how Industrialization and Urbanization fuel one another's growth.
Answers vary.
This process streamlined production of some goods such as cars.
What is the assembly line?
Making up the bulk of the Central Pacific's workforce, thousands of immigrants from this nation endured deadly winter blasts to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
What is China?
Beginning in 1862, this was a primary reason that inspired 1.6 million people to move westward.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Movement led by Dorothea Dix, working to reform facilities for vulnerable populations. Leading to legislative change in Canada and 15 states.
What is reforming the abusive treatment of mentally ill people in prisons and asylums?
Describe a capitalist economic system.
Must mention:
- businesses are privately owned and ran
- Competition is part of it and necessary for consumers
-Supply & Demand
Explain two negative impacts of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution.
Options:
- Displacement of Natives due to transportation
- Dangerous and harsh working conditions
- Increased demand for enslavement
- Urban slums and disease
- Factories dumping toxic waste into waterways
-Major wealth gap
Explain how advances in communication and transportation fueled the growth of businesses and cities.
Must mention:
-Faster to transport resources and products
-Easier to communicate long distances to make business deals
-Businesses lead to factories/jobs, therefore people follow jobs, causing cities to grow.
Anchored by Mulberry Street, this Lower Manhattan neighborhood became America's premier enclave for immigrants from southern Europe during the late 1800s.
What is Little Italy?
The movement that sought to end a social problem that was believed to lead to unemployment, domestic abuse, poverty, and crime. Members of this movement wanted people to rebuild their family lives.
What is the Temperance Movement?