Communication Revolution
Wide-spread literacy and this other factor were two major factors in the communication revolution.
What is the U.S. postal office?
James Watt is credited with developing this practical steam-powered invention during the Industrial Revolution, a key innovation that powered various industries.
What is the Steam Engine?
This president rejected racial equality and any effort of the federal government to assist freedmen in the transition from slavery to freedom.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This breakthrough in transportation, introduced in the mid-19th century, utilized iron tracks, making it faster and more reliable than previous methods.
What is the railroad?
This man was president during the beginning of reconstruction in 1860, and believed reconstruction was over when the southern states were back into the union
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
This machine was invented by Fredrick Koeing and allowed information to be spread quickly by making copies of books, pamphlets, or posters more quickly.
What is the Steam-powered printing press?
An essential element that is heated in a steam engine to produce the steam that drives the engine's pistons.
What is water?
In this court case, it was ruled that segregation of schools was unconstitutional.
What was Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the name of the system of raised dots on paper, developed by Louis Braille, that became an early form of writing for the blind during this time.
What is Braille?
This Court Case ruled that enslaved people were not Citizens of the United States and, therefore, did not have rights to the protection of the federal government.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This invention allowed people to receive and send messages and was successfully made by Samuel F. B Moore.
What is the Telegraph?
This man is the father of the industry.
Who is Samuel Slater?
This amendment made all people born in the United States United States citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This is the essential material that was used in the construction of railroads, contributing to the success of the Transportation Revolution.
What is Iron?
This group of whites who terrorized freedmen for white supremacy.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
This company is one of the most successful printing companies in New York City in the 1840s.
What are Currier and Ives?
This man created the Cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
These laws limited the social and economic rights of freedmen to turn them into a powerless and exploitable workforce.
What are black codes?
This canal, completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River, significantly impacting trade and transportation.
What is the Eerie Canal?
This amendment established voting rights for people of color
What is the 15th Amendment?
This book was widespread during the communication revolution and helped the cause of the abolitionists.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
These two groups of people were exploited for their labor during this period.
What are women and children?
This is a famous armed white vigilante group committed to terrorizing freedmen and imposing white supremacy.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This famous American road, built for westward expansion, became a key route for pioneers and traders.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This Doctrine ruled that the Bill of rights applied to state governments too.
What is the Incorporation Doctrine of the 1920s