The Industrial Revolution
What is the name of the invention that separated cotton fibers from the seeds?
the cotton gin
How did Frederick Douglass defy the laws on slavery?
He learned to read.
What was the name of the political group that was a secret society who opposed immigrants and Catholics?
Know-Nothings
Which word means, "a crop sold for money at the market"?
cash crop
Who was the British mechanic who memorized all the information to build and operate mills in the U.S.?
Samuel Slater
What is the name of the invention that allowed people to communicate quickly over long distances using electrical signals?
the telegraph
What was the main reason many business owners in the North opposed abolition?
They depended on a supply of cotton from the South.
What was the main way education changed in America between 1800 and the 1850s?
Free public schools were established.
Which word means, "the belief in the uniqueness and importance of each individual?"
individualism
Who was the American inventor who wanted to speed up the process of making guns with the use of machines?
Eli Whitney
What are three benefits of interchangeable parts in manufacturing?
1. increased efficiency and productivity
2. improved quality and consistency
3. reduced cost of production
What was significant about Seneca Falls for the Women's Rights Movement?
women publicly demanded equal rights
How did the Hudson River School artists reflect their love for their country?
They portrayed American landscapes.
Which word means, "association of workers in a specific trade, or line of work, formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions?"
trade unions
Who was the woman who campaigned for women’s suffrage and was arrested in 1872 for trying to vote?
Susan B. Anthony
Why were there fewer factories in the South than in the North in the mid-1800s? (2 answers other than "the South had plantations")
2. many people lacked money to buy manufactured goods
What do Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common?
They believed in civil disobedience.
What made American music in the 1800s "American"?
it mixed the different musical traditions of Americans
Which word means, "the movement of people from farms to cities?"
Who was the merchant who built a new mill that had all the machines needed to turn raw cotton into finished cloth?
Francis Cabot Lowell
How did the Industrial Revolution change American society?
Possible answers:
-growth of factories
-rapid industrialization
-technological advancements
-change from manual power to machine power
What is the Underground Railroad? Who participated in it?
a network of abolitionists who secretly helped African Americans to escape to freedom in the North or Canada (secret words: stations and conductors [ex: Harriet Tubman])
What was the goal of American Colonization Society?
to send free African Americans back to Africa
Which word means, "a policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people"
discrimination
This lady was one of the most effective civil rights leaders who got her name after vowing to travel across the country.
Sojourner Truth