Slave Revolts/Economics
Migration
Transportation
Vocab
Misc.
100
How did free-market economics effect technology?
Competition leads to growth of technology
100
What was the first wave of immigrants to work at the Lowell Mills?
Irish
100
The Transportation Revolution is...
Travel and trade are dramatically improved by new technology such as steamboats and trains
100
Define Industrialization
The development of factories and shift away from a sole agricultural economy
100
How does the North depend upon slavery?
To feed its manufactering of goods
200
How did the expansion of the US's rail network effect the US? (Give 2)
-More diverse populations
-Greater diversity of goods
-Greater movement
-Grows economy
200
Define WASP
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
200
Which country in 1860 has the most railway?
USA
200
Define Logistics
Coordination of a plan
200
What is this monument depicting? Where can it be found?
Irish Famine Memorial, Boston
300
Name of leader of Hatian Revolution
Toussaint Louverture
300
Where did many escaped slaves try to flee?
(Name 2)
- Mexico
- Canada
- Carribbean
- Frontiers
300
Why does the South lack a expansive railroad network like the North
Northern economy depends on transporation of raw and manufactured goods
300
Define cotton belt
The states in which the most cotton is produced
300
Inventor of Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
400
How did the Nat Turner rebellion effect slavery?
Stricter codes regarding slaves such as slaves not being aloud to read or write
400
List two groups during the Antebellum period that are considered "White"
N. Europeans
English
Scottish
German
400
How does the Transportation Revolution relate to Manifest Destiny and Americas native population?
Makes transportation to the west far easier due to technology which leads to conflict with native populations
400
Define Antebellum Period
US from 1812 - 1861 before Civil War
400
What caused a increase in slavery?
The invention of the cotton gin
500
Name two goods outside of cloth based products that the Northeast produced
Whale oil
Clothing
Rum
Molasses
500
What is the African Colonization Movement?
Movement by educated elites (typically abolistionists) to establish a homeland for free slaves in Liberia
500
How does the North's expansive railroad network relate to the defeat of the South in the Civil War?
Union can move troops and materials more efficently than a industrial underdeveloped South
500
Describe the Dredd Scott supreme court case
(Dredd Scott vs. Sanford)
Supreme Court Case that determines slaves traveling to a free state doesn’t make them free
500
Which textile innovation allowed factories to spin cotton and other cloth
Spinning Jenny