A machine invented by Eli Whitney that removed seeds from cotton and greatly increased production.
What is the cotton gin?
100
Apartment houses lacking sanitation, comfort, and safety.
What are tenements?
100
A lack of food, often leading to starvation, and the primary cause of and increase in Irish immigration.
What is famine?
100
Man-made waterways that connected natural bodies of water. Made movement of goods from place to place faster.
What are canals?
100
The certain fate of the United States to stretch from Ocean to Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
200
Licenses to make, use, and sell new inventions.
What are patents?
200
The program in which people in early cities lit street lamps, called out the hour of the night, and sounded the alarm in case of fire.
What are Night Watches?
200
The countries of origin for the majority of immigrants during 1820's through 1860's.
What are Ireland and Germany?
200
A manufacturing system in which workers traveled from their homes to factories. Goods were made on power-driven machines and the manufacture of products was divided into separate parts.
What is the factory system?
200
People who wanted to expand the land area of the United States.
Who were the expansionists?
300
Replacement parts for machines that are exactly like the original.
What are interchangeable parts?
300
Places where water is collected and stored for future use.
What are reservoirs?
300
To farms in Illinois, Missouri, and Wisconsin, and other Western cities to set up businesses.
What is, Where did the German immigrants go?
300
A factory system in which the workers lived in company-built houses close to the factory, with long work hours, low pay, and their free time controlled by factory owners.
What is the Waltham System?
300
The name given to people who moved to California around 1849 in search of gold.
Who were the forty-niners?
400
The system of producing large numbers of an item quickly by using interchangeable parts.
What is mass production?
400
Education and jobs were easier to get, entertainment in the form of opera and plays were available, there were adult education courses and libraries.
What were the benefits of city life?
400
This is what happened in the early to mid-1800's due to new factories, the growth of commerce brought on by the railroads, and foreign trade.
What is urbanization? -or- What is the increase in the population of cities?
400
Developer of the Waltham System.
Who is Francis Lowell?
400
The trail that settlers took to travel west from Independence, Missouri to Oregon.
What is the Oregon Trail?
500
Processing rubber to make it withstand great heat and cold.
What is Vulcanization?
500
There was a lack of water and adequate lighting, there were no police or fire department, there was sickness in the tenements and the burning of coal made clouds of smoke.
What were the problems of city life?
500
A group of people who feared competition for jobs from immigrants and worked against any person who was not a native-born American.
What is the Nativist Movement?
500
The person who came to America from Great Britain with the plans of British textile machines and set up the textile mill in America.
Who is Samuel Slater?
500
The movement of a large number of people to California to mine gold after a large amount was discovered in the San Francisco area.