Who did employers hire when their employees went on strike?
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What is Strikebreakers
DD:Scabs or Rats
100
New York City benefited greatly from this canal.
What is the Erie Canal
100
Ralph Waldo Emerson's popular lecture-essay that reflected the spirit of individualism pervasive in American popular culture during the 1830s and 1840s.
What is Self Reliance
100
Man from Massachusetts and invented the cotton gin.
What is Eli Whitney
200
Who introduced the idea of the Christmas tree to America?
What is The Germans
200
Name 2 ways why America was slow to embrace the Industrial Revolution.
What is cheap land, scarce labor, scarce capital, no competition with British goods
200
The West transported this and grain to New England and Europe.
What is livestock
200
Term referring to a series of 19th century transportation innovations-turnpikes, steamboats, canals, and railroads-that linked local and regional markets, creating a national economy.
What is Transportation revolution
200
Invented the sewing machine in 1846, later to be perfected by Isaac Singer.
What is Elias Howe
300
What were the letters that the immigrants sent back to their family, telling them about America called?
What is “American Letters”
300
The decision women made to have fewer children was known as what?
What is Domestic feminism
300
These were commonly seen travelling across the land of the west.
What is stagecoaches
300
Small, swift vessels that gave American shippers an advantage in the carrying trade. Made largely obsolete by the advent of sturdier, roomier iron steamers on the eve of the Civil War.
What is clipper ships
300
"Father of the factory system", memorized plans for machinery and brought it to America.
What is Samuel Slater
400
What did George Catlin’s strive for conservation of the Western front eventually lead to creating?
What is Yellowstone National Park
400
What was the London Fair known as that hosted over 100,000 exhibits during the Industrial Revolution?
What is The Great Exhibit
400
1828 is the date of the first running of this mode of transportation.
What is steam engine/train
400
Legal principle that facilitates capital investment by offering protection for individual investors, who, in cases of legal claims or bankruptcy, cannot be held responsible for more than the value of their individual shares.
What is Limited Liability
400
Born in Virginia, contributed the mechanical mower-reaper.
What is Cyrus McCormick
500
What semi-secret society helped the minorities in America?
What is the Ancient Order of Hibernians
500
What was needed to make commerce transported more easily from east to west?
What is Transportation Revolution
500
What was the name of the first steamboat?
What is What is Clermont (also acceptable: Fulton’s Folly)
500
Historians' term for the spoliation of western natural resources through excessive hunting, logging, mining, and grazing.
What is Ecological Imperialism
500
"The greatest wire-puller in history", organized a joint Anglo-American-Canadian venture to stretch a cable under the deep North Atlantic waters from Newfoundland to Ireland.
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