Learning Target 1
Industrial Revolution? What is it?
The time period when machines started taking the place of many hand tools/people-powered mechanics.
Why did people come to the US?
Opportunities to buy cheap land believed skills would serve them well, hand no choice - it was a move for survival.
Free African American in the South
What were Slave Codes?
Laws that controlled enslaved African American's lives and denied them basic rights.
How did the industrial revolution impact the economy and industry?
North: Relied on the industry and technology. Many new inventions allowed people to produce things efficiently.
South: Slavery and cotton was their foundation. Slavery and cotton was their foundation (industry - was of little use and only a small market for manufactured goods)
Where did it take place?
Begin in Britain, in the textile industry (cloth-making). It carried over to the textile industry in New England area.
What do you know about Irish Immigrants?
Came because of the potato famine of 1845, 1 million people starved to death, 1 million left Ireland, most were farmers, work lowliest of jobs, young women were employed as household workers.
What jobs did slaves have?
Skilled workers - kept plantations operating efficiently, worked in the owner's home - housekeepers, butlers, nannies, farm labor.
Purpose of Slave Codes?
Slave owners wanted to keep slaves ignorant of the outside world to reduce the number of revolts and slaves that wanted to escape.
How did the industrial revolution impact communication?
North: Printing press invented = mass printing of newspapers and Telegraph invented = ran along railroads which allowed for quick communication.
South: Slavery and cotton was their foundation, due to a limited number of railways, fewer telegraph lines, and worse communication than the north.
What did it lead to?
Mass Production = Rapid production of identical parts which lowers the cost of those items.
What do you know about German Immigrants?
Came because of revolutionaries or failed revolutions, were from all levels of society, MOVED WEST (REALLY OUR MIDWEST = OHIO VALLEY/GREAT LAKES)
Free African Americans in North?
Examples of Slave Codes?
Denied the right to vote, the right to a trial by jury, could not testify against whites, children could not attend public schools, had to carry passes to prove they were free, could not gather without a white person, no groups of more than 3 slaves could gather and cannot own a gun.
What 4 key ingredients make up the Missouri Compromise?
1.Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state
2.Missouri could be admitted to the Union as a slave state
3.The Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri would be free of slavery
4.It gave southern owners a right to pursue escaped fugitive slaves into "free" regions and return them to slavery
How were the Factory Conditions?
Horrible, no fresh air, dangerous machines, injuries with no compensation, workdays = 12+ hours, children worked!
How were they treated?
Many Americans wanted to preserve the country for white, American-born protestants so they opposed Irish Catholics. They built policies again foreigners.
Schools, public facilities, African Americans formed their own churches, newspapers portrayed A.A. as inferior.
Two main reasons:
Because there was now a huge demand for cotton in the textile industry, the invention allowed the south to satisfy that demand and produce even more cotton.
What were some major inventions and Transportation?
Canals, Railroad, Reaper, Sewing Machine, and Cotton Gin AND Water = Steamboat/clipper ships & Land = Railroads.