Trivia
The invention Eli Whitney is best known for
What is Cotton Gin
This part of the Missouri Compromise attempted to settle disputes over slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the 36 30 Line?
Self-emancipated, but returned to the South under great peril to lead 70 of her friends and family to freedom. She also is the first American woman to command troops in battle during the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The process where production change from goods made by handheld tools to goods made by water and steam powered machinery.
What is industrialization?
Daily Double! Name two innovations that helped to spur the industrialization of cotton cloth production
Spinning jenny, power loom, water frame
The part of the Constitution that decided that a portion of the enslaved populations of a state would be counted toward that state's representation in Congress.
What is the House of Representatives?
Who is Nat Turner?
The religious movement that swept the nation shortly after 1790 and helped to jumpstart reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Term used to describe the attempt by investors to fill vacant factory positions by convincing farmers to send their daughters to industrial towns. This system sought to prevent a permanent class of impoverished factory workers such as those in England.
What is the Lowell Experiment (or Lowell System)?
These two innovations drastically reduced travel times over land and water
What are the steam locomotive and steam boat?
This practice was compromised over in the Constitution by prohibiting its ban until 1808 but including a tax.
What is the international slave trade?
This woman hid in her grandmother's attic for 7 years before being able to self-emancipate. She traveled to Boston, New York, and London before writing a 'slave narrative'.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
She led the movement to reform prisons and create mental health institutions.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The name of the newspaper published by "Mill Girls" in a new city dominated by cotton and wool cloth factories.
What is the Lowell Offering?
The name of the current day state that was the destination for those who were forced on the 'Trail of Tears'?
What is Oklahoma?
As part of the Missouri Compromise, this state was admitted to the Union as a free state
What is Maine
Born into slavery, this great writer and speaker escaped to the North, where he worked to achieve the freedom of slaved through nonviolent means
Who is Frederick Douglass
A 19th-century ideology that promoted a strict division of labor and the " true woman" ideal, which emphasized piety, purity, submissiveness, and domesticity. Women's rights advocates challenged this idea in the Antebellum Era.
What is cult of domesticity or sphere of woman?
When female mill workers went on strike for the first time, leaders made these- something an American woman had never done before.
What is made a public speech?
The concept in the Constitution that states would be required to return those who self-emancipated into areas where slavery was illegal was known as this.
What is the Fugitive Slave Clause?
This couple self-emancipated by disguising themselves as an enslaver and 'his' servant and taking several trains to freedom.
Who are Helen and William Craft?
This movement sought to convince Americans that they should moderate their alcohol use.
What is the temperance movement?
The workforce in New England mills, previously dominated by Yankee girls and women, shifted to an immigrant labor force after this occurred in Ireland in 1848.
What is the Potato Famine?