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Vocab
Industrialism
Slavery
Hodge Podge
Just for Fun
100
This is an artificial waterway
What is a canal?
100
This is when the Industrial Revolution reached the United States.
When is circa 1800?
100
This was a network of safe houses owned by abolitionist
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This is a device that uses electric signals to send messages
What is a telegraph?
100
This candy encourages their customers to "taste the rainbow"
What is Skittles?
200
This gives sole legal rights to an invention and its profits
What is a patent?
200
Life in northern factories could be described as this, also a song by Kenny Loggins.
What is a danger zone? (Accepted also:dangerous, harsh, bad, terrible, ugly, anything not good. etc.)
200
Because they feared this, white Southerners prohibited slaves from gathering together in large groups.
What is a rebellion?
200
This was a steamboat that carried goods and passengers up the Hudson River for the first time on its own power.
What is Clermont's First Voyage?
200
This actor is the voice of a plush, cuddly, super soft Kung-fu fighting panda.
Who is Jack Black?
300
This is a system of dots and dashes that represent the alphabet
What is Morse Code?
300
Peter Cooper designed and built the Tom Thumb, which was this.
What is a steam locomotive?
300
This was a plantation manager in the South.
What is an overseer?
300
Factories being able to advantage of water power and easily ship goods to market are two reasons this took place
What is the development of cities along waterways?
300
This force opposes motion.
What is friction? (Kinetic or static)
400
These were laws in southern states that controlled enslaved people
What were slave codes?
400
For this reason, the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney meant a rise in slavery.
The increase in cotton production meant more slaves were needed to work in the fields.
400
These are at least three ways African-Americans would cope with being enslaved.
What are setting fire to plantations, breaking tools, working slowly, pretending to be ill, talking of rebellion or freedom, practicing religion, carrying on their own culture, etc.
400
The women who worked at the Lowell mills communicated and shared their troubles through a publication called this
What is the Lowell Offering?
400
This author wrote about the murder of an old man whose heart is stored under the floorboards.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
500
A type of farmer who owned small farms and little to no slaves
What is a yeoman?
500
Francis Cabot Lowell introduced the factory system, which did this.
What made all steps in the manufacturing process take place in one location?
500
Nat Turner was captured and hanged after leading a gruesome two day rebellion. He was hanged in this town.
What is Jerusalem, VA?
500
This man, clear and marked a trail called this, which served as a Southern highway from eastern states to the West from 1775-1790
Who is Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Trail?
500
Penicillin and bread are made from organisms in this kingdom. (Also describes Mr. Minor)
What is Fungi? (Fun Guy... See!?!?)