People & Perspectives
This group played a major role in building the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
This invention allowed Americans to communicate quickly using Morse code.
What is the telegraph?
This invention made cotton the South’s main cash crop.
What is the cotton gin?
Factories produced goods faster using these systems.
What are factories and interchangeable parts?
The cotton gin caused this to increase in the South.
What is slavery?
These individuals worked to end slavery in the United States.
Who are abolitionists?
Steamboats and canals helped farmers by doing this.
What is giving access to markets at lower costs?
The steam engine improved industry by doing this.
What is making transportation faster and cheaper?
When factories were built, nearby towns often did this.
What is grow?
A major reason slavery expanded was this.
The Cotton Gin
This group used the Underground Railroad to escape to freedom.
Who are enslaved African Americans?
The main reason canals were built in the 1820s was to do this.
What is transport goods cheaply between West and East?
New machinery in the 1800s led to this major change.
What is more efficient production of goods?
The Lowell System is known for hiring this group.
Who are young women?
After slave rebellions, Southern states responded by doing this.
What is creating harsher slave laws?
Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech spoke out for this group.
Who are enslaved African Americans?
Canals helped farmers in this region ship crops to the Northeast.
What is the Midwest?
The Transcontinental Railroad led to this in the West.
What is increased settlement and economic growth?
Children often had this job in textile factories.
What is threading needles?
Songs like “Follow the Drinking Gourd” helped slaves do this.
What is find routes to escape using the Underground Railroad?
This group came to the U.S. due to a devastating potato famine.
Who are Irish immigrants?
This Supreme Court case gave the federal government power over interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
This manufacturing method allowed goods to be mass-produced and easily repaired.
What are interchangeable parts?
A long-term result of factory exploitation was this.
What are labor laws protecting workers?
A common form of resistance by enslaved people was this.
What is slowing work, breaking tools, acting dumb or pretending to be sick?