The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in which industry?
textile
Railroads were most concentrated in which two regions?
North ad West
Name the 4 cash crops of the South
cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco
The 1777 consitution of this state banned slavery
Vermont
The delegates to this convention produced the Declaration of Sentiments, modeled on the Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention
Name the two inventions Eli Whitney is remembered for
Interchangeable parts, cotton gin
Groups of people working in the same trade who unite to improve their conditions are known as
trade unions
This state became known for the breeding of horses
Kentucky
This society aimed to end slavery by setting up an independent colony in this modern day African country? (2 answers: the society's name, and the current day country where it was to be located)
The American Colonization Society;
Liberia
These 'readers' were used in American schools from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s to teach literacy, faith, and morals.
McGuffey Readers
This British mechanic immigrated to America, bringing his expert knowledge of textile factories and machinery, and putting it to use in this Quaker capitalist's mill? (2 answers)
Samuel Slater, Moses Brown
Name two other crops, besides potatoes, that the Irish people depended on
wheat, oats
Laws to keep enslaved African Americans from running away or rebelling
slave codes
This former U.S. president, now serving as a member of the House of Representatives, proposed a constitutional amendment that would declare all newborn children free.
John Quincy Adams
(unfortunately it was ignored due to the Southern 'gag rule')
Name two leaders of the women's rights movement that we have discussed
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Name the schedule of work in the mills (hours per day, days per week?)
12 hours/day, 6 days/week
This political party, formed in the 1850s, was anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant
Know-Nothing Party
This man escaped to freedom by having himself mailed in a box
Henry 'Box' Brown
Name the author and title of a famous book published in 1852 that described the suffering of enslaved African Americans and helped further the abolitionist cause.
Harriet Beecher Stowe; Uncle Tom's Cabin
School of art in the mid-1800s that painted lanscapes of parts of the Northeast
Hudson River School
Name the inventors of:
the new cast-iron stove
mechanical reaper
lightweight steel plow
Philo Stewart
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
Built in 1806, this church in Boston is the oldest standing African American church in the United States
The African Meeting House
This man led a violent revolt in 1831 in Virginia for nearly 2 months
Nat Turner
This religious movement encouraged greater individual thought in one's spiritual life and encouraged the abolitionist cause.
Group of writers and thinkers in New England who empahsized indiviudalism and nature
transcendentalists