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Inventions
Immigration
Social Reform
Urban/Factory Life
Other Terms
100
Eli Whitney's invention.
What is the cotton gin?
100
Main reason many Irish people left Ireland in 1845.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
100
Tried to make school available for all children.
What is public education?
100
People that made the most during the industrial revolution.
Who are factory owners?
100
The act of treating another person differently.
What is discrimination?
200
Invention of Samuel Morse.
What is the telegraph?
200
Type of factor (Push or Pull): New land for farms.
What is a pull factor?
200
Tried to stop drinking of alcohol.
What is temperance?
200
A positive result of the Industrial Revolution.
What are goods are made faster and cheaper, lower prices, owners made a lot of money, America became richer, increased standard of living, life became easier, transportation improved, or communication improved?
200
To pre-judge a person.
What is prejudice?
300
Type of mills started in New England in the Antebellum Era.
What is a textile mill?
300
Two immigrant groups (of those we studied) that were most different from American culture.
Who are the Irish and the Chinese?
300
Big issue for women following the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is suffrage?
300
A negative result of the Industrial Revolution.
What are long work hours, dangerous jobs, poor treatment of workers, child labor, pollution, few jobs for skilled workers, urban poverty and alcoholism, or rural way of life starts to disappear?
300
Time period before the American Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
400
Invention that helped Americans move supplies west quickly.
What is the train or locomotive?
400
Group that left their country to escape a revolution in 1848.
Who are Germans?
400
Two women involved in the women's suffrage movement.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
400
Tried to improve working conditions and wages.
What are labor unions?
400
Idea created by Eli Whitney that helped him create his product much faster.
What are interchangeable parts?
500
Region of the country where most inventions of the Industrial Revolution had a larger impact.
What is the North?
500
Person who would say, "Immigrants take jobs away from hard working Americans."
Who are nativists?
500
A movement that tried to improve life for Americans during the Antebellum Era.
What is a social reform movement?
500
New jobs available for women.
What are factory jobs?
500
Machine that allowed for quicker transportation on both the water and land.
What is the steam engine?