Northeast Long ago
What did Northeast Native Americans use the Northeastern forest for?
To make: houses, canoes, tools for hunting, and utensils for cooking.
What was the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines called in history?
The Industrial Revolution
Suffrage
Getting the right to vote
The name of the women’s right convention that was held on July 19, 1848 in New York.
The Seneca Falls Convention
___ between nations allows people to get what they need.
Trade
Why did Northeastern Native Americans set controlled fires?
To make space in the forest to grow crops
To attract animals when the small plants would start growing again animals would come and they would hunt the animals that were attracted
Name at least 1 con (downside) of the Industrial Revolution
poor working conditions, air, land, and water pollution, illnesses because of work or pollution
Creator of the Hull House in Chicago which was a settlement house which provided free services, such as childcare, education, and job training to poor people.
Jane Addams
Reform Movements that were popular in the Northeast during the late 1800s and early 1900s
Environmental justice, Women’s rights, Working conditions, The Abolitionist Movement, Equal rights
An organization created to encourage countries to work together for peace.
The United Nations
What did people make their clothes out of?
Animal skins
What are the poor working conditions that people faced in the Industrial Revolution?
Unsafe conditions with machines and chemicals, Long working hours, low wages
Abolitionist
Someone who wants to end slavery.
A group of people dedicated to improving society
A reform movement
Our Nation's capital
Washington D.C
Men hunted and fished while women tended the crops. Name at least one crop that was grown:
Corn, squash, and beans
Name at least 1 pro of the Industrial Revolution.
Railroads & Steamboats making it easier to transport goods, inventions, goods becoming more affordable and accessible, cities grew as factories created more jobs.
From 1892 to 1954, more than 12 million immigrants came into the U.S. through this small island in New York Harbor.
Ellis Island
The Suffrage Movement led to the 19th Amendment: what did this amendment do?
It gave women the right to vote
How has immigration impacted the Northeast?
Multiple answers
Used wood and leather to make _______.
Snowshoes
How did railroads impact society?
The growth of railroads made it easier to transport goods, which led to the growth of factories and cities
Sweatshop
A factory where people worked long hours under terrible conditions for very low wages. Many sweatshops were in the clothing industry.
A secret route to help enslaved people escape to the North.
It was a series of stops at houses, farms, churches, and other places where the escaping people could rest before continuing farther north.
The Underground Railroad
Provides a route for ships to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
The St. Lawrence Seaway