Inventors
Inventor of the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This man refused to pay a poll tax he thought was unjust.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Abolition tried to end this practice.
What is slavery?
The cotton gin had this effect on slavery.
What is increased the need for slavery?
This was the main cause of urbanization.
What is industrialization?
Inventor of the telegraph machine.
Who is Samuel Morse?
This lady led reform for people with mental illness.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Captured and killed for leading a rebellion at Harpers Ferry Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
The factory system was faster for this reason.
What is it was faster to make things with machines than by hand?
Improvements to these made transportation easier. (i.e. Erie Canal & National Road)
What is infrastructure?
The inventor of the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This religious movement emphasized salvation and involved groups like Baptist and Methodists.
What is the Great Awakening?
This lady was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The telegraph improved this practice.
What is communication?
Rapid industrialization and urbanization led to this negative consequence.
What is pollution in water and air?
The inventor of interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
These artists led a change in the arts by painting peaceful pictures of nature.
Who is the Hudson River School?
Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Exposed the north to the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The inventions and innovations of the Industrial Revolution increased these two things.
What are productivity and efficiency?
These immigrants changed the western landscape by blasting through mountains to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are the Chinese?
This man invented the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
This lady believed women should have the same voting rights as men and they made a dollar with her face on it.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This former slave escaped becoming a writer stateman and orator.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This innovation put workers and machines under one roof.
What is the factory stystem?
America saw a huge influx of Irish immigrants because of this event.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?