Industrial Revolution
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
What is Britain
What is the name of the device Samuel Morse invented?
What is the telegraph
Who invented the cotton gin?
Who is Eli Whitney
What is another name for a toll road?
What is a turnpike
What name is given to the practice of denying certain groups of people the use of schools or public facilities?
What is discrimination
What is the name of the first machine to speed up the thread-making process?
What is the spinning jenny
What do we call the growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities?
What is urbanization
What term is given to people we treat differently based on their race?
What is discrimination
What is the name of the New York governor who proposed the building of the Erie Canal?
Who is Governor DeWitt Clinton
Who did the Nativists believe the country should be preserved for?
Who are white, American-born Protestants
Name given to people who invested money in businesses?
What is a capitalist
What invention revolutionized ships and locomotives?
What is the steam engine
What laws governed the life of African Americans?
What are slave codes
What do we call the legislation that governed the extension of slavery in the west?
What is the Missouri Compromise
What is the name of the first newspaper owned and run by African Americans?
What is the Freedom Journal
Name of the man who brought knowledge of the spinning machine to the US?
Who is Samuel Slater
What event caused Germans to immigrate to the US?
What are political revolutions
Name of the African American who led a revolt in 1831
Who is Nat Turner
What is the name of a famous early pioneer?
Who is Daniel Boone
Who invented the reaper?
Who is Cyrus McCormick
To keep machines running, how long was the average work day?
What is 12 to 14 hours
What is the Know-Nothings
What name was given to southern society?
What is "Cotton Kingdom"
Who persuaded Congress to adopt the Missouri Compromise?
Who is Senator Henry Clay
What is the name of the man who improved on Elias Howe's design for a machine that could sew seams?
Who is Isaac Singer