Industrial Machines
The machine that rapidly separates cotton fibers from sticky seeds, which was previously done by hand. The machine also increased the demand for slave labor as it made farming cotton more profitable.
What is the cotton gin?
The reform made education better for students and it encouraged students of all backgrounds work together.
What was the Education Reform?
What immigrants brought over the idea of "Kindergarten"?
What are the Germans?
The god-given right that America was meant to expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is the number 13?
The standardized, identical components allowing for hot-swapping components without custom fitting.
What are interchangeable parts?
What is the Prison Reform?
A set of beliefs harbored toward established inhabitants and against immigrants.
What is nativism?
This war was fought over Texas' border of the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers, which America ended up winning.
What is the Mexican-American War?
What was the civil war fought over?
What is slavery/ African-American rights?
These helped to centralize production, and replace home-based work leading to large-scale production of standardized goods.
What are factories?
This reform moderated the amount of alcohol that people can drink, and it lead to prohibition.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Answer Both Questions:
1. What influenced the population of California to grow between 1848 - 1855?
2. What is the main immigrant population to immigrate to California during this time period?
1. What is the California Gold Rush / Gold at Sutter's Mill?
2. What are the Chinese?
This territory had a boundary of the 49th parallel. It was also acquired from Great Britain.
What is the Oregon Territory?
What is the date of American Independence?
What is July 4, 1776?
This item was mainly powered by water mills and made by factories. It is a flexible material from natural/ synthetic fibers.
What is a textile?
This reform encouraged people to think for themselves, aka. individualism.
What is Transcendentalism?
Answer Both Questions:
1. The main reason that people from Ireland came to the United States.
2. What jobs did the Irish take in the Northern United States?
1. What is the Irish Potato Famine?
2. What are hard labor jobs (eg. building railroads)?
Why is the industrial revolution linked to Manifest Destiny, or America getting new lands? (long answer)
Example Answer:
It lead to America getting more natural resources (like the California Gold Rush) which created more opportunities for Americans and immigrants.
Which country did the United States purchase Alaska from?
What is Russia?
This item enabled very fast communication over long distances, which transformed many industries.
Hint: The language mainly used over this item is morse code.
What is the telegram?
A series of organized actions where many people work together for a common goal.
What is reform?
What short-lived American political party had anti-immigrant ideas?
Hint: The party starts with a 'K'.
What are the Know-Nothings?
Which territory resulted from the Treaty of Mesilla (June 8, 1854)?
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
Which president died on independence day? (there are 3)
Who are John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe?