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The circulation of money and goods between consumers, business and the government is called:
What is Economic Flow?
100
Starting with Slater's Mill in 1793, more and more products were made in factories powered by water and then by steam. The increase in production in factories is called:
What is industrialization?
100
In what year was the first Women's Rights Convention held?
What is 1848?
100
In 1869, this state became the first state to allow all women to vote for all offices.
What is Wyoming?
100
Name the football team named for many of the miners who rushed to California the year after gold was discovered.
What is The San Francisco 49ers?
200
Some workers in a factory put brakes on a car. Others put on the wheels. A third group attach the bumpers. Each group specializing instead of everyone doing each job is called:
What is Division of labor?
200
Trade between countries to send out (export) goods other countries need and bring in (import) things our country needs
What is International Trade?
200
Name two of the leaders of the Women's Rights Convention
Who were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
200
The right for women to vote in the first state to allow women to vote was led by this woman. She later became the first elected woman official in this state. Her statue stands in the Capitol in Washington D.C.
Who was Esther Morris?
200
How many years after the discovery of gold in California were there enough people for California to become a state?
What is two?
300
Giving a person or a group of people a chance to compete in business so that they might obtain jobs and make money for themselves, their families and their communities.
What is Economic Opportunity?
300
Making many goods quickly in factories
What is mass production?
300
Name the great abolitionist who spoke at the convention and urged women be allowed to vote.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
300
Many women who worked for women's rights also worked hard for the movement to get rid of slavery in America. Name the movement.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
300
Who made more money, the miners who dug for gold or the people who sold them supplies?
What were the people who sold them supplies?
400
Someone who takes an idea and starts a business with the expectation of establishing a growing business, increasing jobs and making money.
What is an entrepreneur?
400
There is not much of a product available that everybody wants. The price goes higher. There is quite a supply of a product very few people want. The price goes down.
What is supply and demand?
400
Elizabeth Cady Stanton took the Declaration of Independence as a model for a rights statement for women. In it she stated: "All men and women were created equal". What was the name of this statement?
What is "The Declaration of Sentiments"?
400
Name the only woman still alive in 1920 who attended the first Women's Rights Convention. She voted for president in 1920.
Who was Charlotte Woodward?
400
Why did the entry of California into the Union cause an uproar in congress?
What is California, a big and potentially powerful state entering as a free state. Many slave state leaders resented California entering as such a state and their concerns led to The Compromise of 1850. California-free state, no slave selling in Washington D.C. Utah and New Mexico territory-popular sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Law to be enforced.
500
The system where a product is made by many people working specialized jobs. This system allowed more products to be made in greater quantities and more cheaply.
What is a Factory System?
500
Where the first Women's Rights Convention was held.
Where is Seneca Falls New York?
500
Another name for everyone being able to vote as long as they were of age and met residence requirements
What is Universal Suffrage?
500
Where was gold first discovered in California?
What is Sutter's Mill?
500
What famous blue jeans were "born" in the gold rush? What famous chocolates? What famous bank? What famous hot dogs?
What are Levis Jeans, Ghirardelli Chocolates, Wells Fargo, Armour Hot Dogs?