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Industrial Revolution
The North Transformed
The Plantation South
The Challenges Of Growth
Bonus
100
What started in Great Britain?
Industrial Revolution
100
What is the growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities?
urbanization
100
What was the greatest source of wealth for the U.S?
Cotton
100
What are turnpikes?
Toll roads made from private companies.
100
Who were the nativists?
People who wanted to preserve the country for white people.
200
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
The man who made new machines and new versions of the machines.
200
How much did Americans invest in businesses in 1860 because of advances in manufacturing?
1 billion dollars
200
What was the name of the tool that was used to speed up the processing of cotton?
Cotton gin
200
What is a canal?
A channel that is dug across land filled with water
200
What year was the great hunger?
1845
300
What is a new method and experiment that the Americans did?
Mass Production
300
What was the first railroad and when did it begin?
Baltimore and Ohio at 1828
300
What was the name of the person who led the most famous slave revolt in 1831? He had a vision that told him to kill whites.
Nat Turner
300
What year did Daniel Boone led 30 of his men to a new route to the West?
1775
300
What year did the most immigrants come to America?
1851
400
How did the steam engine help?
Did things for them instead of them doing it.
400
What did Samuel Morse begin his career as?
a painter
400
In what year was the cotton production the most?
1860
400
What year and what lake did the canal open?
Opened in 1825 on Lake Erie
400
What was Robert Fulton's Steamboat Called?
Clermont
500
How long does a workday last?
12 or 14 Hours
500
On what year were there 220,000 Irish immigrants that came to the country?
1851
500
In what year was importation of enslaved people banned?
1808
500
Name 5 free states and 5 slave states
Free States: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Vermont, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Slave States: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, Delaware
500
Who made the Wilderness Road?
Daniel Boone and his party of 30.