Immigration
This is the reason that many of the first Europeans immigrated to America, specifically to the colony of Plymouth.
What is religious freedom?
This invention, built by Chinese and Irish immigrants, allowed people and goods to be transported more quickly. This reduced the prices of goods in the U.S.
What is the railroad?
Samuel Slater used ideas from Great Britain and new machines to set up this new work place, which eventually attracted immigrants to America and creater larger cities.
What are factories?
This movement, headed by Horace Mann, sought to create free school.
What is education reform?
These "fake rivers," combined with steamboats, allowed us to move goods faster than ever before. It led to cheaper goods for the South and westward expansion.
What are canals?
This is the primary labor force in factories and on the railroad
Who are immigrants?
This invention allowed seeds to be quickly removed from a popular cash crop, increasing slavery in the United States.
What is the cotton gin?
This is the primary reason for the increase in population in Northern cities during the 1800s.
What are factory jobs?
The leaders of this movement, like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, wanted suffrage.
What is the women's rights movement?
This is the definition of rural and urban.
RURAL = FARM
URBAN = CITY
This immigrant group moved to America to find gold in the West and get rich; however, many people instead worked on the railroad and were met with discrimination.
Who are the Chinese?
What is the steam engine?
(OR Steamboat)
This was the primary workforce in textile factories.
Who are women?
Dorothea Dix wanted better treatment for these people that way they could live normal lives.
Who are prisoners and the mentally ill?
These are two negative effects of urbanization.
Possible answers:
- discrimination
- pollution
- crowding
- dangerous
- crime
This immigrant group came to America after experiencing a potato famine in their country. They lived out East and worked in factories.
Who are the Irish?
This invention made products cheaper because it standardized and sped up the process of creating goods. **CREATED MASS PRODUCTION**
What is interchangeable parts?
New immigrants and desire to live closer to the factory jobs led to this rapid occurence in the United States.
What is urbanization?
This is what we called people like William Lloyd Garrison who wanted to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This economy type, where prices and quality of goods are determined by competition, is the standard economy in the United States.
What is free enterprise?
This immigrant group moved to the midwest and Texas in order to set up farms after there was political turmoil in their country. Their passion about education created Kindergarten.
Who are the Germans?
What is the telegraph?
This is the system used before factories in which people handmade goods in their own homes.
What is the cottage industry?
This group of people created the "temperance" movement to demand alcohol be outlawed in the United States.
Who are women?
*** BONUS *** - DOUBLE POINTS!
What is nativism?
Nativism is a belief that people "native" (born in the country) should take priority over immigrants.