What was one effect of mass production during the Industrial Revolution?
-Workers produced more goods in shorter time (increased productivity)
-More manufacturers used interchangeable parts
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Why did many Germans and Irish immigrate to the United States?
-They heard about land and job opportunities.
-Germans: War and Crop Failure
-Irish: Potato Famine
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What Mexican law angered Americans living in Texas?
It was illegal to own slaves in Mexico.
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What was the "jumping off" point of the Oregon Trail?
Independence, Missouri
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What right did Elizabeth Cady Stanton fight for?
Women's Suffrage (Women's right to vote)
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What invention led to advances in travel?
Steam Engine
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Where did many immigrants settle in the United States?
-Many Irish stayed in the port cities where they landed because they were too poor to move any where.
-Many Germans moved to the Midwest where land was plentiful.
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Why did Americans want Texas to be annexed to the United States?
They believed in Manifest Destiny (the belief that it was America's obvious future to own all of North America).
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How did people travel on the trails going west?
By wagon train- A line of covered wagons that moved together.
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What were the goals of the women's movement?
-To gain the right to vote
-To own property
-To speak in public
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How was Robert Fulton's steamboat different from other boats at the time?
It had a paddlewheel that powered it to move against the flow of water.
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What did immigrants do for work in the United States?
-Worked in factories
-Worked as servants
-Built canals and railroads
-Started farms
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Why did some Americans oppose the annexation of Texas?
They did not want to add another slave state to the U.S.
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Why did people decide to move to California instead of Oregon?
Gold was discovered there.
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What is a reform?
An action that makes something better
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What are interchangeable parts?
Parts that are made by a machine to be exactly the same in size and shape.
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Why were immigrants disliked by some Americans?
-Their customs seems unusual.
-Americans thought immigrants were taking jobs from them.
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What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo give America?
-The annexation of Texas (with the Rio Grande as the border)
-Mexican Cession (California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico)
-A small portion of land that America paid for
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What was a result of the California Gold Rush?
-Boomtowns emerged
-California had enough people to become a state
-Miners and farmers killed California Indians and took over their land
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Who was Susan B. Anthony?
A leader in the Women's Rights Movement. She traveled across the country giving powerful speeches and working to change many laws.
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Before the Industrial Revolution, people worked on farms or in workshops. How did that change AFTER the Industrial Revolution began?
Many people work in factories.
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What is a famine?
A wide-spread shortage of food.
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Why did Mexican president Santa Anna give Texas its independence?
To gain his freedom after he was captured at San Jacinto
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Why was the Oregon Trail hard for many settlers?
-The trail crossed through the Rocky Mountains and the Blue Mountains.
-They faced injuries, diseases.
-There was harsh weather.
-There was a lack of food and water.