Topic 1
Machine invented to process the seeds out of cotton faster.
What is the Cotton Gin/Engine?
What is immigration?
Individuals moving from rural areas to the cities is called what?
What is urbanization?
Invented the mechanical reaper-used to cut grain more efficiently.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
Who invented the Steel Plow?
Who is John Deere?
Cloth or woven fabric.
What is a textile?
Term that is generally used to describe places in the countryside, usually some distance away from cities and suburbs.
What is rural?
Potato famine caused many of these people to leave their countries and move to the United States.
Who were the Irish?
What is nativism?
Building or group of buildings where workers use machines to manufacture or assemble products.
What is a factory?
Poorly built, dark, crowded multi-family apartments.
What are tenements?
These immigrants left their country to escape poor harvest, political unrest, low wages, crowded cities, and dangerous work.
Who were the Germans?
Term for all of the people who live in a certain region, city, or nation.
What is population?
Nickname for the American Party, a political party that gained support in the 1850s. The party was known for its anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic positions.
In 1845, a plant disease called late blight spread to Europe and began attacking potato plants, thus beginning what became known as?
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
Period of change for the economy and society of much of the world. Many countries transitioned from primarily agricultural societies, in which most goods were handmade, to societies in which machines were used to manufacture goods.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
What was the Steam Engine?
Name three problems caused by urbanization.
What is housing, sanitation, pollution, water contamination, crowded cities, poverty, and starvation?
Process of moving away from a society where everything is done by hand, to a society where machines do everything. Mass production
What is Industrialization?
Who invented the telegraph and the code used to communicate with it?
Who is Samuel Morse?
Early factory system. They took machines, placed them under a roof, eliminated people making textiles all by hand
What is the Lowell System?
This invention made mass production possible. The parts are all made the same, so that if one part breaks, it is easily replaced. Invented by Eli Whitney.
What is interchangeable parts?
Change in the economic system where people started going to the market(stores) to buy goods instead of hand making everything
What was the Market Revolution?
Use of human knowledge to create tools and machines that allow us to navigate and control the environment.
What is technology?
The way that a society or nation produces and distributes goods and services.
What is an economy?