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Who's who?
Industrial Revolution
Urbanization/ Immigration
The Cotton South
Expansion and Compromise
100
An early pioneer who helped clear the Wilderness Road
Who is Daniel Boone
100
Describe factory conditions during this time
What is poor lighting, no fresh air, dangerous, 12-14 hour days, if injured- had to support oneself.
100
What is urbanization and why did it occur?
What is the movement of people from rural areas to cities- farm laborers had been replaced by machines, they had to move to cities to work in factories or shops
100
How did the Cotton Gin affect the South?
It made processing cotton faster and easier, made profit easier to make
100
What is a canal and how can a canal affect trade?
What is a Channel dug across land and filled with water, it let boats reach more places, and increased the trade of goods.
200
Samuel Morse was responsible for this new communication device.
What is the telegraph
200
Steam-powered textile plants corrected the problems of the first textile mills. What were some of the disadvantages of the first textile mills?
What is they had to be built on riverbanks, far away from cities, labor was hard to find, no power in the dry season.
200
DAILY DOUBLE! Who were the Nativists, what did they stand for, and who did they not like?
What is people who held racial and religious prejudice, they wanted to preserve the US for white, American-born Protestants, they didn't like Irish Catholics because they meant more competition for jobs.
200
What is one argument supporters to slavery gave in defense of slavery?
What is it was more humane than free labor system of the North, they didn't have to worry about unemployment,that less control over African Americans would lead to uprisings.
200
The Missouri Compromise divided North and South over what primary issue?
What is Slavery.
300
He invented the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney
300
How would you define interchangeable parts?
What is identical pieces to be quickly assembled by unskilled workers, usually made in large quantities.
300
Even free African Americans in the North faced discrimination. What are some examples?
What is they could not vote, they could not work in factories or low level jobs because they were given to whites, schools were segregated, they had to create their own churches.
300
What were Slave Codes?
What is laws that controlled every aspect of slave's lives, they had no rights at all, they were treated as objects/things, they could be beaten or worked almost to death.
300
True or False: Under the Missouri Compromise, Maine was admitted as a free state.
What is True
400
A Mill town was named after him
Who is Frances Cabot Lowell
400
How did the Industrial Revolution change the way work was performed?
What is machines took the place of hand tools
400
Why did Irish and German immigration to the US increase in the 1840s?
Irish- under harsh British rule, potato crop was a staple food and because of the potato famine it was wiped out. Germans- under harsh rulers, many took part in revolutions, but failed and fled to the US.
400
How widespread was slave ownership?
What is fewer than half of white southerners owned slaves, the poor farmers who didn't own slaves raised pigs and grew corn.
400
What did the Missouri Compromise say about the Louisiana Territory North of the Southern border of Missouri?
What is it would be free of slavery.
500
Senator who persuaded Congress to approve the Missouri Compromise
Who is Henry Clay
500
What was the factory system?
Brought workers and machines together in one place, workers had to keep pace with machines, not their own.
500
Why were railroads a better way to transport goods than steamboats?
What is trains could be built almost anywhere (more direct), they were faster, and trains didn't have to worry about rivers freezing over.
500
Why were slave uprisings dangerous for other slaves?
What is innocent slaves might be executed in retaliation.
500
Why did Northern states wish to have Missouri and Maine enter the Union at the same time?
What is to maintain the balance of free and slave states in the Senate.