Transportation 338-331
Birth of the Mill 330-335
Child Labor 334
Oregon Trail 383-384
Indian Removal 371-372
100
New source of power for travel developed in 1800s
What is steam?
100
Country where the Industrial Revolution started
What is England/Great Britain?
100
Vulnerable group that was enslaved in English mills
What are orphans?
100
Town where many people started their journey on the Oregon Trail
What is Independence, Missouri?
100
United States President that sought Indian Removal
Who was Andrew Jackson?
200
Advantages of steamboat travel
What is quick and inexpensive?
200
Money that is invested in business
What is capital?
200
Two reasons why children were desirable as workers
What are they could squeeze around machines and they were paid less?
200
Groups of pioneers who traveled together for safety
What were wagon trains?
200
President Andrew Jackson ignored a ruling in favor of the Cherokee from this judicial body
What is the Supreme Court?
300
Major disadvantages of steamboat travel
What is steamboats could catch on fire or explode?
300
Machine that can spin several threads at once
What is a spinning jenny?
300
Problems with child labor (name at least 2)
What are children missed out on school, play, and could be killed or maimed by machines?
300
Diseases that threatened pioneers on the Oregon Trail (name at least 2)
What are scurvy, mountain fever, and cholera?
300
Cherokee leaders who signed the Treaty of New Echota, which paved the way for the Trail of Tears
Who were Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot?
400
New way of transporting goods from the Great Lakes to New York City that opened in 1825
What is the Erie Canal?
400
Eli Whitney's innovation that made mass-production possible by making parts that were all the same
What are interchangeable parts?
400
Typical work week for children and other workers in early factories
What is 12 hours a day, 6 days a week?
400
Best animals to pull your wagon
What are oxen and horses?
400
Wife of Chief John Ross who died of pneumonia on the Trail of Tears
Who was Quatie Ross?
500
Bumpy roads made out of logs
What were corduroy roads?
500
The movement of people from farms to cities
What is urbanization?
500
Two reasons why many people thought child labor was acceptable
What are children also worked on farms during the 1800s and many families needed the extra money?
500
These people may attack you, but they are more likely to charge you a toll for crossing their land, or trade their food for your clothing and tools
Who are the Native Americans?
500
Final destination of the Cherokee
What is Indian Territory, now part of modern-day Oklahoma?
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