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He built the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
He invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel F. B. Morse?
He built factory machines in America.
Who is Samuel Slater?
He was a leader in the movement for tax-supported public schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
He opened American trade with Japan.
Who is Matthew Perry?
This is a shallow, man-made water highway.
What is a canal?
This invention led most directly to the end of the Pony Express.
What is the telegraph?
Britain prohibited the export of this to keep from losing its industrial advantage.
What is machinery?
They believed that people were basically good but had been corrupted by society.
What is transcendentalism?
He cut a road into Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap.
Who is Daniel Boone?
This natural passage runs through the Cumberland Mountains.
What is the Cumberland Gap?
He developed a plow with a steel blade.
Who is John Deere?
This is the production of goods in large quantities.
What is mass production?
These people wanted to end the practice of slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
They were two female abolitionists who called for women’s rights.
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This was the first nationally funded road in the U.S.
What is the National or Cumberland Road?
These are parts of a device that can be replaced by identical parts.
What are interchangeable parts?
These are groups of workers who organized to obtain better pay and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
This woman worked for the treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This revivalist preacher reached large crowds through publicity and special techniques.
Who is Charles Finney?
What were the three disadvantages canals had that led to the end of the canal age?
What are (1) were expensive to build and maintain, (2) froze in winter, and (3) could not compete against new railroads?
This invention made cotton production more profitable, increased the demand for slaves, and caused cotton production to grow rapidly.
What is the cotton gin?
Identify three positive results and three negative results of the Industrial Revolution in America.
Positive: (1) new inventions made work easier; (2) people moved from farms to cities; (3) money earned in factories enabled some to enjoy a higher standard of living; (4) cities grew; (5) factories gave immigrants the opportunity for new life in America.
Negative: (1) workers typically worked six days a week and over seventy hours a week; (2) wages were low; (3) most members of the family, including children, had to work; (4) factories were cramped, stuffy, noisy, and dangerous; (5) workers feared losing their jobs to new machines; (6) factory towns were drab and crowded; (7) housing was crowded; and (8) children could not attend school while working.
This major religious revival happened in America in the late 1700s and early 1800s, strengthening the trend toward democratization and stirring people to examine their behavior and to press for moral reforms.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
As the output of cotton cloth increased at New England textile mills, so did the demand for raw cotton and with it the need for more of these people.
Who are slaves?