Technological innovation & factory life
I invented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
These are the two types of factors that influence migration; one "pushes" people to leave their home country, while the other "pulls" them toward a new one (like job opportunities).
What are push and pull factors?
These often unsafe places employed many children in the industrial Revolution, leading to accidents and lung issues.
What are factories? (Textile mills)
The southern colonies economy heavily relied on this labor system for cash crops like tobacco.
What is slavery?
The primary goal of this movement was to end slavery in the United States.
What is the Abolitionist movement?
This device used electrical signals to send messages
Telegraph
To save space in rapidly growing 19th century cities, these narrow, low-cost apartment buildings were built, though, they were often overcrowded, unsanitary, and lower proper ventilation.
What are tenements?
The typical workday in factories during this era was often this long, leading to exhaustion.
What is 10 to 12 hours?
The economic system where individuals own businesses and seek profit, the model for the U.S.
What is the free enterprise system?
This document, issued at Seneca Falls, listed grievances and demands for women's equality.
What is the declaration of Sentiments?
What was the biggest machine that changed the industrial revolution today?
Cotton gin
This 1882 federal law was the first significant U.S legislation to restrict immigration based on a specific nationality, reflecting the growing "nativist" sentiment of the time.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Children were favored for jobs like textile mills because they could be paid less and fit into small places.
What are cheap labor and small size?
This area of the colonies were known as the "bread basket".
What are the middle colonies?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities, often driven by industrial growth.
What is Urbanization?
Famous for hiring young women from farm families, this Massachusetts textile mill system offered higher wages than domestic work but required workers to live in supervised boarding houses.
What is the Lowell system?
Many irish immigrants came to the U.S. in the 1840s to escape this devastating agricultural disaster.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This movement sought to end child labor by raising awareness and advocating for laws.
What is the child labor reform movement?
Colonists in this region gained wealth through industry and trade.
What are the New England Colonies?
The idea that the ordinary people should have the power to choose their leaders, a principle tied to voting rights expansion.
What is popular sovereignty?
the shift from water power to this new energy source allowed factories to be built away from rivers and closer to cities and raw materials leading to rapid urbanization.
What is the steam engine?
This term describes the process of immigrants becoming part of the mainstream american culture by learning its values and behaviors.
What is assimilation?
Children often worked in these dusty, dangerous places, crawling into small spaces to extract this valuable resource.
What are coal mines?
This region of the colonies had a mixture of both agriculture and industry.
What are the middle colonies?
This term refers to the right to vote, which was a central goal of women's rights activists.
What is suffrage?