Inventions
The name of the machine that Cyrus McCormick created to remove seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This term refers to people who live outside of the cities.
What is rural?
During the industrial revolution, this was a period of rapid growth for this.
What is industry?
The reason many immigrants came to America during this time period.
What is employment?
**Also accepted....to make money?
This revolutionized the buying and selling of goods when it was constructed to go from the East coast to the West Coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Henry Ford created this new system to help put products together faster.
What is the assembly line?
This term refers to cities and the people that live within those cities.
This was the time period referred to as the Second Industrial Revolution.
What is the late 1800's-Early 1900's?
The name of the apartment-style buildings that many immigrants lived in during the Industrial Revolution.
What is a tenement?
During the period of Westward Expansion, these people were forced off of their homelands and moved to other "designated" lands.
Who are the Native Americans?
This invention allowed people to move up and down the river to deliver goods and people.
What is the steamboat?
Due to urbanization, many people moved into the cities in a short amount of time. That movement created this problem.
What is overpopulation?
With many new factories springing up, business owners were able to create a lot of products in a short amount of time. This was known as....
What is mass-production?
During this period of immigration, many immigrants came through this port in New York.
What is Ellis Island?
After the California Gold Rush in 1848, many people moved west to bring this back to the East.
What are natural resources?
This invention, created by Thomas Edison, illuminated our lives.
What is the light bulb?
These are two examples of terrible working conditions in the factories.
What are safety concerns, pollution, poor wages, no health care, disease....
Many factories were built near the water. This was a major problem due to this.
What is water pollution?
Because they were immigrants, they accepted this more than the U.S. citizens who also worked in the factories.
What is a lower wage?
This group of people were also often forced from the land they grew up on and were treated as second-class citizens.
Who are the Mexicans?
This invention, used to power boats and trains, allowed us to travel further.
What is the steam engine?
Fill in the missing piece of this revolution cycle.
Factories created jobs.
Jobs brought people to the cities.
People ______________________
More factories were built to keep up with production.
What is needed more goods?
In a country that was predominantly agriculturally based, the United States became this.
What is a strong economic power?
The reason why many men immigrate to the United States without their families?
What is so they could secure a job and provide stable living conditions.
What was the name given to the belief that we need to settle the continent, conquer and prosper?
What is Manifest Destiny?