People
Innovations
Free Enterprise
Immigration & Urbanization
War of 1812
100
Who is known as the "Father of the Factory System" in the United States?
Answer: Who is Samuel Slater?
100
Which invention made it easier to transport goods across rivers and canals?
Answer: What is the steam engine?
OR
Answer: What is a steamboat?
100
What was the economic system imposed by Britain in which it controlled who the colonists traded with?
Answer: What is Mercantilism
100
In the 19th century, which group of immigrants predominantly came to escape potato famine?
Answer: Who were the Irish immigrants
100
Which two countries were primarily involved in the War of 1812?
Answer: What are the United States and Great Britain?
200
Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?
Answer: Who is Eli Whitney
200
What was the primary purpose of the telegraph, invented in the 1830s?
Answer: To send messages quickly across long distances using Morse code
200
What is the government's role in free enterprise?
Answer: What is limited government interference?
200
What term describes the rapid growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: What is Urbanization
200
What was one major cause of the War of 1812?
Answer: What is impressment of American sailors?
300
Who invented the steamboat?
Answer: Who is Robert Fulton
300
What invention, by Cyrus McCormick, could harvest the same amount of grain as five people?
Answer: Who is Cyrus McCormick
300
How are prices determined in a free enterprise system?
Answer: What is supply and demand
300
Which group of immigrants faced discrimination and were often blamed for economic problems in the western part of the U.S.?
Answer: Who were The Chinese
300
What were two effects of the War of 1812? (2)
Answer: What is increased national pride and manufacturing?
400
Who invented the telegraph?
Answer: Who is Samuel Morse
400
Which innovation allowed for easy assembly of new devices and efficient repair of existing devices ?
Answer: What are interchangeable parts
400
How did Henry Clay's American System SUPPORT the development of free enterprise?
Answer: Discouraged foreign competition by imposing tariffs
400
Why did Germans migrate to the U.S. during the Industrial Revolution?
Answer: What is available land for farming?
400
What document ended the War of 1812?
Answer: What is the Treaty of Ghent?
500
Who combined all phases of cloth production under one roof?
Anwer: Who is Francis Cabot Lowell
500
What best completes this diagram?
Answer: What is the demand for slaves increased in the South?
500
Which Early Republic political party would have opposed the industrialization of the U.S.?
Answer: Who were the Democratic Republicans
500
What contributed to the trend shown in the table below:
Answer: What are factory jobs in the North?
500
Which battle during the War of 1812 was fought after the peace treaty was signed?
Answer: What is the Battle of New Orleans?