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Key Terms
Industrial Revolution
Plantation South & Conflicts over Slavery
Immigration & Discrimination
Transportation
100
Bringing workers and machinery together in the same place.
What is factory system?
100
He memorized plans for textile mills in England and built the first textile mill in the US.
Who is Samuel Slater?
100
This allowed Missouri to enter the US as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Most immigrants in the mid-19th century came from these two countries.
What are Ireland and Germany?
100
Robert Fulton invented this.
What is the steamboat?
200
The growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is urbanization?
200
Inventor of interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200
Most southern whites were this occupation.
What is farmers?
200
This is why many Irish came to America in the mid 19th century.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
200
Roads made of sawed off logs laid side by side.
What are Corduroy Roads?
300
A machine used to separate seeds and fibers from the South's most profitable crop.
What is a cotton gin?
300
The industrial revolution began in this industry.
What is textiles?
300
This was the result of the use of the cotton gin.
What is that growing cotton became more profitable so the system of slavery grew and expanded?
300
This is the definition of nativist.
What is a person that believes that the US should be only for white, American-born, Protestants?
300
Toll Roads.
What is a turnpike?
400
Widespread starvation.
What is famine?
400
This is how the industrial revolution affected some children in the United States.
What is that many worked long hours in the factories instead of going to school?
400
This is why slavery and growing cotton were linked.
What is that growing cotton required large amounts of labor?
400
This is where most immigrants settled.
What is in Northern cities?
400
This was the importance of canals.
What is that they made travel between New York and the Midwest faster, cheaper, and more efficient?
500
This is what a telegraph does.
What is a machine that sends electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances?
500
This is the precise definition of Industrial Revolution.
What is the change in production from handmade to machine made, and the change in power sources from human/ animal to moving water and steam?
500
This was the south's concern during the debate over the Missouri Compromise.
What is that the federal government seemed to be getting the power to regulate slavery?
500
This is the definition of discrimination.
What is the denial of equal rights and equal treatment based on race, religion, culture, or nationality?
500
List all the new forms of transportation technology (5).
What are turnpikes, corduroy roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads?