Labor & Immigrants
What was the greatest source of wealth in the United States?
Cotton
Movement of production from man made → machine made.
Industrial Revolution
Why were new roads needed?
Transport goods faster and more efficiently
What part of the United States is considered the "back country?"
Area between the Atlantic coast and the Appalachians
Why was the number of child workers so high during the 1800s?
Men didn’t want to work in factories, leaving many open jobs and children could be paid less.
The process of _______________________ also caused the movement of urbanization. Americans no longer had to work on farms, they could work within cities.
Industrialization
The _____________________ is an invention that allows messages to be send quickly over long distances by sending electrical signals along a wire.
Telegraph
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Trying to keep the amount of slave and free states even. Maine was to be a free state and Missouri to be a slave state.
List 3 common health conditions for someone working in a factory in the 1800's
Breathing Problems, Physical Injuries, Bad Eyesight
Starvation among a large group of people.
Famine
Private companies created _________________, in which travelers had to pay a fee to use.
Turnpikes
Where did slavery still exist?
South
Why is the number of immigrants increasing during this Industrial Revolution era?
Immigrants are fleeing famine and harsh rulers in Europe
Denying equal treatment to a group of people.
Discrimination
Eli Whittney is known for his creation of…
The cotton gin & interchangeable parts
True or False: Despite being free many African Americans still could not send their children to public schools, vote or serve on juries.
True
As immigrants flooded west, eight new _______________ were created.
States
Migration of people from living on farms to living in cities.
Urbanization
Why were canals an important addition to the United States landscape?
Many rivers ran North/South, by creating canals ships could also travel East/West
What were some of the jobs given to enslaved people?
Housekeepers, butlers, nannies, servants, sometimes skilled workers