How many chicken nuggets come in the ten piece meal
Ten
100
What did the cotton gin do to slavery?
It expanded slavery
100
Did the South go through an Industrial Revolution?
No
300 pts: What was the South doing instead?
100
What increased California's population enough to become a state?
The gold rush
100
What made it law that all run away slaves must be returned to their owner?
Compromise of 1850
200
Why would the factory system encourage urbanization?
Workers moved to cities to be closer to the factories
200
Name two new inventions that allowed for faster communication.
Telegraph and Morse Code
200
What was California's main industry before the Gold Rush?
Cattle/ Ranching
200
Why did we get the Gadsden Purchase
To build railroads to the newly acquired land in the West
Double: Who did we buy the GP from and for how much?
200
What happened to Mexico because of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
They lost half their land.
Double: What was ended by this Treaty?
300
Where were women moving during this time and why?
Cities to work
300
What invention allowed people to move west and open up new markets?
Railroads/ better trains
300
Were Chinese people coming for religious, political, or economic reasons?
Economic
Double: What was the reason and did it work out for them?
300
What began as a border dispute between the US and Mexico?
Mexican-American War
300
What land did we gain through a treaty with Great Britain?
Oregon
400
List characteristics of the cottage industry.
Artisan Workers, All work is done in the home, paired per item made, flexible schedule
400
What allowed goods to be cheaply shipped from the Midwest to the Atlantic Ocean?
The Erie Canal
Double: What state does it cut through?
400
Describe what changes went on during the Industrial Revolution.
America went from mainly Cottage Industries to mainly factory systems.
400
What land gained its independence from Mexico and eventually asked to join the US as a slave state?
Texas
400
The right to popular sovereignty was MOSTLY given to which group of acquired lands?
Mexican Cession
Double: How did we get this land?
500
List the characteristics of the factory system.
Rigid schedule, all work done in a factory, unskilled workers, paid by the hour
Double: What is the most famous factory system called and please explain it.
500
What allowed for railroads to be built for less money, but still be stronger?
The Bessemer Steel Process
500
What is the most important invention that allowed Industrialization to become cheaper and more efficient?
Interchangeable parts
500
Describe how we got all six land acquisitions.
Bought LA Purchase, bought Florida, Annexed Texas, Treaty with Britain for Oregon, Treaty following a was with Mexico for the Mexican Cession, Bought the Gadsden Purchase
500
What are the three main parts of the Free Enterprise System?
Profit, Privet Property, Competition
Double: Does this system allow you to make, buy, and sell most goods or does it severally limit what you can do?