Vocabulary
What does scarcity mean?
limited supply
Skilled worker who specializes in a specific craft.
Artisan
Who is Sojourner Truth and what she was famous for?
Former slave who advocated for women’s rights and anti-slavery (Ain’t I a Woman)
How did work life change for people as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
People switched from farming to manufacturing (factories)
Movement of the population from rural areas to cities.
Define profit
The difference between the cost of a good and its selling price.
What is the name of the father of our modern day public school system.
Horace Mann
Why did workers started organizing into unions?
They would be able to fight for better working conditions.
A person who invests in a business to make a profit.
Capitalist
Free Points!
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What were the first industries in Paterson, NJ?
Cotton and wool textiles
Why did the Germans and Irish leave their homelands for America?
Food shortage or famine
American who wanted to preserve the country for native-born, white citizens.
Nativist
Define Debtors
People that cannot pay back money that they owe.
What type of sailing ship that was used to make America’s trade with Europe more efficient?
Yankee Clipper
What do you know about the impact that the Industrial Revolution had on working conditions and social classes that you took notes on?
Highlight in your notes and review for the test!!
Working Conditions: Dangerous, hot in summer, cold in winter, bad ventilation, disease, long hours, child labor, crowded
Social Classes: Rich got richer, Birth and growth of Middle Class, unskilled labor got left behind, if they learned a skill they have upward mobility.
Define Strike
Union workers refuse to do their jobs until managers agree to address their concerns.
A policy or practice that denies equal rights to certain groups of people.
Discrimination
What religious movement that influenced reforms in the 1800s?
The Second Great Awakening
TRIPLE POINTS!!
What do you know about the aspects of culture that we discussed and took notes on (find this in your notes!):
Religion-
Food-
Ancestry-
Clothing-
Language-
Traditions-
Ethnicity-
Based upon notes: highlight this and study it!!