KEY TERMS
The practice of planting and growing crops and raising livestock.
What is agriculture?
This machine separated cotton fibers from seeds quickly.
What is the cotton gin?
This region had rocky soil, changing seasons, and fast-moving streams used to power factories.
What is the North?
These people moved to cities in search of jobs and new opportunities during the Industrial Revolution.
What are factory workers?
These water routes were dug to connect lakes and rivers for transporting goods and people.
What are canals?
Manufacturing, or producing a product for profit.
What is industry?
This machine could produce up to eight spools of thread at once.
What is the Spinning Jenny?
This region had fertile soil, warm climate, and focused on growing cash crops like cotton and tobacco.
What is the South?
Factory workers often worked around this many hours per day.
What is 11½ hours? (or What is approximately 11 to 12 hours?)
These steam-powered vessels were used to travel through rivers and canals to transport goods and people.
What are steamboats?
A rapid change in the economy due to machines and inventions speeding up manufacturing.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This invention used gears, levers, and springs to weave thread into cloth.
What is the power loom?
This machine cut grain 28 times faster than by hand.
What is the McCormick Reaper?
In the 1830s, workers organized into these groups to demand shorter workdays and higher wages.
What are trade unions?
This invention revolutionized transportation with steam-powered locomotives.
What are railroads?
A group of workers who work together to improve working conditions.
What is a trade union?
This device sent messages over long distances using dots and dashes.
What is the telegraph?
The South grew this cash crop, especially after the cotton gin was invented.
What is cotton?
Children factory workers faced these conditions
What are long hours, low pay, and dangerous working conditions? (Accept any two)
Many Irish immigrants came to the United States fleeing this disaster in their homeland.
What is the potato famine?
A person who moves from one country to another.
What is an immigrant?
This invention converted sound waves into electrical signals that could travel along wires.
What is the telephone?
A large property used for agricultural purposes in the South.
What is a plantation?
Which region had the most factories due to its fast-moving streams and available power sources.
What is the North?
Irish immigrants were driven from their homeland due to this, and German immigrants fled a failed revolution.
What is the potato famine? (Accept: What is hardship and the search for new opportunities?)