Industrial Innovations
This was the power source of many of the first factories in the Industrial Revolution
What is running water?
This region became the center of manufacturing and industry in the United States. (more specific than just north)
What is New England?
This crop was the backbone of the Southern economy.
What is Cotton?
These buildings housed many families in small, unsafe living spaces.
What are tenements?
This invention by Eli Whitney increased cotton production and strengthened the Southern economy.
What is the Cotton Gin?
These improvements made transportation of goods faster and cheaper.
What are canals and railroads?
This invention increased the demand for enslaved labor instead of reducing it.
What is the Cotton Gin?
These issues were common in industrial cities due to poor sanitation.
What are disease and pollution?
These factories producing these types of goods were among the first to employ large numbers of workers, including women and children.
What were Textiles?
These two groups of people led to an increase in urbanization as they moved to the North looking for factory jobs
Who are immigrants and farmers?
The invention of the Cotton Gin allowed slaves to clean how much more cotton per day than compared to cleaning it by hand.
What is 50 times more?
This man made waterway allowed for good from the Great Lakes to be easily transported to New York City
What is the Erie Canal?
These four conditions made New England an ideal place for new factories to be established (100 pts per condition named)
What are abundant rivers, large labor force, investors, and access to ocean for shipping?
This early invention allowed for many factories to quickly produce thread to be used in textiles
What is the Spinning Jenny?
Despite being a small percentage of the total population, this group held most of the political and economic power in the South
Who are plantation owners?
This issue kept Missouri from becoming a state for nearly 3 years.
What is upsetting the balance of slave and free states?
These three power sources drove machines during the Industrial Revolution, what is the correct order they were used in?
What is Humans/animals --> Running Water --> Coal/Steam?
The telegraph used used this system to communicate messages over long distances.
What is Morse Code?
Many Southerns who did not own slaves still defended the system, due to these reasons
What are feelings of superiority and fear of uprisings?
In addition to allowing Missouri to join as a slave state and Maine as a free state, the Missouri compromise banned slavery in future states above this line
What is Missouri's southern border?