Inventions
This sent coded messages over a wire.
What is the telegraph?
These changed American transportation because they were faster than any other mode of transportation, could be built in any direction and did not depend on water ways.
What are railroads?
The country from which many of the first immigrants came from.
What is England?
The education in early public schools was this.
What is not very good?
He wrote frightening stories and poems.
Who was Edgar Allen Poe?
Around 1800 this grew slowly in American because of British competition.
What is manufacturing?
Samuel Slater built one of these from memory.
What is a textile machine?
This increased commerce between New York City and the West.
What is the Erie Canal?
One reason more people came to America after 1830 was because the transatlantic trip was this.
What is cheaper?
He put schools under state control and supported them with taxes, required all schools have the same programs of study, required that subjects be taught at a higher level, and that teachers be trained.
Who was Horace Mann
By the mid-1800s, people in Europe were reading these.
What are stories by American writers?
These tried to get better pay for workers.
What are labor unions?
What Cyrus McCormick and John Deere improved by inventing new equipment.
What is farming?
This delivered mail to the West.
What is the Pony Express?
America is referred to as this because its people come from many different cultures.
What is a melting pot?
Teacher training improved the quality of this.
What is early public education?
She wrote a very popular novel about slavery.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A former slave, who was self-taught and an excellent speaker and writer.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
These things that Eli Whitney helped develop, made the manufacturing process better.
What is interchangeable parts?
A road that travelers paid to use.
What is a turnpike?
The large number of these was alarming to the nativists.
What are immigrants?
He wrote readers, spellers, and grammar books.
Who was Noah Webster?
He wrote adventures about the American Revolution.
Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
Slums, poor street lighting, poor garbage disposal, rodents, dirty water, more immigrants and crowded conditions, friction and violence between groups were all results of this.
What is rapid growth?
This is why new machines helped the textile industry to grow.
What is they helped goods to be produced faster and cheaper?
These made shipping goods on water ways cheaper and faster.
What are steamboats?
The number of these rose between 1830 and 1850 because the transatlantic trip was shorter and cheaper. Also many came from Ireland due to potato famine and from Germany due to political unrest and crop failure.
What are immigrants?
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson wanted Americans to be better this, so they would be better voters.
What is educated?
He owned a newspaper that supported the abolitionists.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
These were groups of workers trying to get better pay, shorter workdays, and cleaner, safer work environments. Immigrants were not often a part of them because they were willing to work longer hours for less pay. Cultural and language differences did not help their efforts.
What are labor unions