Inventions
Workers
City/Immigrant 1
City/Immigrant 2
Everything
100
Eli Whitney invented the
Cotton Gin or Interchangable Parts
100
Refusing to work until demands are met is a
Strike
100
The __________ was a time period of advancement in production and technology
Industrial Revolution
100
Why did the Irish come to America?
Potato Famine
100
People in cities had to live (close/far away) to/from their work
Close
200
Who invented the iron plow?
John Deere
200
These groups were formed by workers to join together to fight for better pay and conditions.
Trade Unions or Unions
200
The Steam Engine and Railroads are examples of the _____________ Revolution (Not Industrial)
Transportation
200
Why did the Germans come to America
Political issues
200
Germans were mostly _________ Christians
Protestant
300
Cyrus McCormick invented the
Mechanical Reaper
300
Americans in factories were replaced often by _______
Immigrants, Irish, or Germans
300
Which immigrant group settled mostly in Northeastern cities?
Irish
300
What group of people did not like immigrants?
Nativists
300
Why did factory wages drop?
Immigrants would work for less
400
What allowed news to travel much faster?
Telegraph
400
Hiring young unmarried women is known as the _____________ System
Lowell
400
Which immigrant group would most likely use Cyrus McCormick's invention?
Germans
400
What political party was formed because of anti-immigrant beliefs?
Know-Nothing
400
Which immigrants came to America with more money?
Germans
500
Who built the first textile mill in America?
Samuel Slater
500
Immigrants had to pass through __________ before continuing to the American mainland
Ellis Island
500
Irish women often worked as
Domestic servants.... House Worker.... Etc
500
Anti-immigrant groups believed the Irish were more loyal to the _________ than they would be to America
Pope
500
Why did most mills locate in the Northeast at first?
Rivers
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