Industrial Revolution
Inventors
The Plantation South
The North Transformed
The Challenge of Growth
100
someone who invests capital in a business to earn a profit
What is capitalists
100
memorized plans for spinning machines and brought them to American to start the American Industrial Revolution.
What is Samuel Slater
100
laws controlled lives of enslaved African Americans were called?
What is slave codes
100
The spread of urbanization and a sharp rise in _______ caused problems in many northern cities.
What is immigration
100
a toll road
What is turnpike
200
identical pieces that can be assembled quickly by unskilles workers.
What is interchangeable parts
200
The inventor who created a machine that sent messages quickly over long distances using a series of dot and dashes.
What is Samuel F.B. Morse
200
leader of violent revolt against slavery.
What is Nat Turner
200
Advances in technology and many new _____ helped the growth of industry.
What is inventions
200
a channel dug across land and filled with water.
What is canal
300
a system that brings machinery together in one place.
What is factory system
300
the inventors who created a machine that separated seeds from cotton fibers.
What is Eli Whitney
300
religious folk songs that blended Biblical themes with the reality of slavery.
What is spirituals
300
Businesses could obtain raw materials and get goods to market more easily because improvements in _________.
What is transportation
300
an early pioneer who helped to clear the Wilderness Road
What is corduroy road
400
the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical objects.
What is mass production
400
first reliable steam engine was invented by _______
What is James Watt
400
African Americans, whether free or enslaved, were subject to _________.
What is unequal treatment.
400
Free African Americans in the North often faced _____ and were denied many rights.
What is discrimination
400
Gaps in the nation's system of transportation were filled by the ________ and other similar waterways.
What is Erie Canal
500
The way that Americans lived and worked was greatly changed by the ________?
What is the Industrial Revolution
500
inventor who invented the mechanical reaper for farming.
What is Cyrus McCormick
500
Plantation in the South increased their use of slave labor to supply more cotton to the northern _________
What is textile industry
500
someone who wanted to preserve the country for white, American-born Protestants.
What is nativist
500
The American government and _______ built networks of roads.
What is private investors
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