This was the most important invention for communication during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the telegraph?
100
A fungus that destroyed this crop led to many Irish people immigrating to America.
What is the potato?
100
The issue of Missouri wanting to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state led to this document being agreed upon.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
A greater production of cotton can be attributed to this invention.
What is the cotton gin?
200
These are pieces that are made identical so that they can be switched out on a product with ease.
What are interchangeable parts?
200
These are two problems that cities encountered during the Industrial Revolution. (List any two)
What are disease, dirty streets, lack of sewage systems, lack of clean water, and fires?
200
This is the type of job that most lower class immigrants took when they came to America.
What is a factory job/manufacturer?
200
These are two ways in which African Americans resisted slavery. (List any two)
What is working slow, pretending not to understand what they were doing, breaking farm equipment, fleeing to the North, and/or revolting?
200
These are toll roads that were used for transporting goods across land.
What are turnpikes?
300
He created a town for his workers to live in to maximize productivity.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
300
This is the key reason for why city populations grew during the Industrial Revolution.
What are factories opening in cities?
300
This is the reason why many Germans immigrated to America during the Industrial Revolution.
What is political instability in Germany?
300
These were laws that controlled every aspect of a slaves' life and made African Americans appear as things, rather than people.
What are slave codes?
300
These are channels that are dug across land and filled with water, which allow boats to reach more places and transport goods efficiently.
What are canals?
400
He invented the water frame and first steam-powered textile plant.
Who is Richard Arkwright?
400
These are the two main transportation innovations that helped advance the Industrial Revolution.
What are trains and steamships?
400
These are Americans who spoke out against immigrants.
Who are nativists?
400
Along which directional border (north, east, south, west) of Missouri was the line drawn for which future territories could become slave holding areas.
What is the southern border of Missouri?
400
This is what happened to the number of slaves as the Industrial Revolution continued on.
What is increase significantly?
500
This system brought workers and machinery together in one place.
What is the factory system?
500
This is what happened to the price of clothing once the sewing machine was introduced.
What is prices went down?
500
This is the region in which many German immigrants settled in America.
What is the Great Lakes region/Ohio River Valley?
500
This is what the Missouri Compromise stated about runaway slaves.
What is they could be captured and returned to their owners in the South?
500
This was the crop that generated the United States' greatest source of wealth during the Industrial Revolution.