Dates of Events
9% of Americans lived in Cities
What is 1820?
The name of the class that consisted of people who lived in furnished homes and had a life with more privacy and comfort.
What the middle class?
Where did the majority of people work?
What is factories/industry?
The foreign industrial event that impacted economic growth in America
What is British Industrial Revolution?
What animal was killed by sawmills and milldams?
What is fish?
20% of Americans lived in cities?
What is 1860?
The name of the social class that lived in shacks/shanties and had terrible conditions?
The most predominant ethnicity of the immigrants in cities.
What is Irish?
Name of the revolution that transitioned to the creation of canals and railroads.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
Dams and canals had caused what on the environment?
What is soil erosion?
71% of Americans worked in agriculture
What is 1830?
What are at least two examples of terrible living conditions for the urban-working class?
What is lack of sewer, lack of garbage disposal, and unpaved paths?
What were large cities known for?
What is manufacturing and trade?
The creation of a _______ Road helped promote growth in the economy.
What is Federal?
What did standardization of time help?
What is transportation?
During this time, it took 2 weeks to travel from Boston to Philadelphia
What is 1790?
At least three rules that middle class Americans followed.
What is genteel behavior, following rules of etiquette, appropriate clothing for events, and a furnished parlor?
Small cities were based around what?
What is mills or textile production?
How did states reward entrepreneurs?
What is tax breaks/monopolistic control/financing projects?
What two forms of protests did Americans use in the Trouble in 1834?
What is petitions and strikes?
The date of the construction of the Baltimore-Ohio Railroad
What is 1828?
The name of the Quaker who attempted to educate Blacks?
What is Prudence Crandall?
The two strategies cities used to expand
What is diversified manufacturing and providing service and credit?
The court case that allowed property owners to develop property for business purposes.
What is Palmer vs. Mulligan?
The phrase that described the men's need to sustain the family financially
Hint: The phrase has a food item in it...
What is "bring home the bacon"?