Vocabulary
The inventor of the telegraph.
Who is Samuel F.B. Morse?
The country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Britain/England?
A machine that improved harvesting by cutting grain.
What is the mechanical reaper?
A small manufacturing business that is carried on in one’s home.
What is the cottage industry?
After the invention of the cotton gin, cotton (or white gold), soon became _________________________?
What is the greatest source of wealth in the United States?
Parts that are exactly the same.
What is interchangeable parts?
The denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people
What is discrimination?
Someone who wanted to preserve the country for white, American-born Protestants.
Who are nativists?
The argument made by supporters of slavery to support slave labor.
A legal document that gives the inventor of an object the right to make and sell the invention.
What is a patent?
The growth of cities due to the movement of people from rural areas to cities
What is urbanization?
The invention of the cotton gin increased the demand for two things.
What is cotton and slave labor?
Reasons for so much disease in cities during the Industrial Revolution.
What is dirty drinking water and lack of sanitation?
The reason the Germans immigrated to America.
What is failed revolutions and persecution?
Widespread starvation.
What is famine?
Aa time period during which machines gradually took the place of many hand tools,
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A simple machine that separated cotton seeds from the plant.
What is the cotton gin?