Vocab & Bonus
Industrial Revolution
Early Inventions
Plantations & Slavery
Nationalism & Sectionalism
100
Loyalty to the interests of your own region, state, or section of the country, rather than to your nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
100
An English textile worker who, in 1789, illegally emigrated to the U.S. under a false name. He brought with him water-powered textile mill technology secrets.
Who was Samuel Slater?
100
The man who invented the first steamboat in 1807.
Who was Robert Fulton?
100
The man who invented the cotton gin.
Who was Eli Whitney?
100
A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country.
What is nationalism?
200
A period of time during which factory machines replaced hand tools and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form of work.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
200
The textile mill in Massachusetts that grew quite famous for hiring mostly young women.
What was Lowell Mills?
200
This man invented a new plow made of steel that was able to plow heavier soil.
Who was John Deere?
200
This machine could automatically sort the pure cotton from impurities like dirt and seeds; this invention changed the South and the plantation system forever.
What was the cotton gin?
200
A deal made in Congress where Missouri was admitted into the Union as a slave state, Maine was admitted as a free state, and slavery was banned North of Missouri's Southern border.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
300
The nickname for the vast area in the Deep South where cotton plantations were everywhere.
What was the Cotton Kingdom?
300
Parts of a machine or item that are exactly alike and can be mass-produced.
What are interchangeable parts?
300
The man who invented the telegraph during the latter half of the Industrial Revolution.
Who was Samuel F. B. Morse?
300
Religious folk songs invented by African-American Christian slaves; the basis for basically all modern music genres.
What are spirituals?
300
President Monroe's statement to European powers that said the Americas were closed to further colonization.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
400
The name of the first steamboat.
What was the Clermont?
400
This development brought many workers and machines together under one roof to manufacture stuff on a huge scale.
What was the factory system?
400
This technology made the water-powered mill obsolete and allowed for people to build factories away from fast-moving water.
What was the steam engine?
400
The African-American slave who staged the most infamous slave rebellion in the history of the U.S. South; 55 whites were killed in the crossfire.
Who was Nat Turner?
400
The massive canal that established a water route from New York City to Buffalo, New York.
What is the Erie Canal?
500
The Supreme Court case where the state of Maryland tried to tax it's branch of the national bank; John Marshall ruled that States have no power to control the operations of the Federal Government.
What was MuCulloch v. Maryland?
500
The 3 reasons New England was the best place to build factories.
1. Lots of fast-moving rivers.
2. Close to the ocean for trade.
3. Willing workforce of ex-farmers.
500
A machine that allowed for farmers for quickly harvest and sort wheat (or similar plants).
What was the mechanical reaper?
500
In Pokémon: Legends Arceus, a newer Pokémon game, a lot of existing Pokémon were given new forms and types.
Typhlosion, who normally is just Fire-type, is given an additional type in this game. What is it?
What is Ghost-type?
500
Name the 3 main parts of President Madison's American System.
1. A protective tariff.
2. Establish a national bank with a single currency.
3. Improve the country's transportation systems.