Inventions
This was the first machine that changed how things were produced during the industrial revolution. For a while, it was legally restricted to Britian, who recognised the advantage it gave them in the textile industry, but eventually it's designs were memorized and brought to America.
The spinning jenny
A previously little known politician who lost the senate race in Illinois, but due to how well publicized the race and debates were, he gained enough popularity to win the presidential election in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
________________ was the main source of labor during the Industrial Revolution in the North; ________________ was the main source of labor in the South (half-credit for one of the two)
Immigrants and former apprentices/skilled workers in the north; enslaved people in the south
In what area of the country did the majority of the Industrial Revolution take place?
The North- it had the majority of the factory, city and rail-road changes that accompanied the movement
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, put the horrors and abuses of slavery in front the reading public in both America and England, provoking outrage. When Abraham Lincoln met her, years later, he is reported to have said "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this big war."
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This invention made cotton much cheaper to grow and sell, because it meant much less manual labor was required to comb out picked cotton fibers
The cotton gin
An enslaved person who chose to pursue his freedom through the courts, via a lawsuit, to force the law to acknowledge him as a free man. The Supreme Court denied his lawsuit, adding to the national tumult over the issue of slavery.
Dred Scott
These were created, after much battle and strife, to allow workers to bargain for better wages and treatment from their employers
Labor Unions
The entrance of this state into the country signaled the official breaking of the Missouri Compromise, which had held the issue of slavery at bay for two decades.
California
Violence broke out in a territory that was about to become a state over the issue of whether or not it would be a slave state. There were two seperate governments over the issue, one of which tried to arrest the other; mob violence; and attacks. Over 200 people were killed. This time came to be known as ________________
Bleeding Kansas
In the 1600s and 1700s, the fastest and cheapest transportation was by water. That changed during the Industrial Revolution and during the lead-up to the Civil War. What became the fastest transportation method by the mid-1800s?
Railroads
An anti-slavery activist who contributed to the bloodshed in Bleeding Kansas, then went on to attack an armory. His attempt at starting a violent slave rebellion ended in failure, and he was executed.
John Brown
Name two problems faced by the workers in the early factories of the Industrial Revolution
Possible answers: Long hours, no breaks, dangerous machinery, hazardous material and environments, arbitrary/unfair hiring and firing practices
Because of this cities ideal, central location in the Midwest, close to the two major water-shipping routes (Along the Erie Canal through the great lakes, and up and down the Mississippi River), it became a shipping and transportation hub, with a later focus on rail-roads. Today, it is the third largest city in the US.
Chicago
What reform movement terrified and infuriated the South? For bonus points, name two other reform movements that also existed during the 1800s.
Main answer: The Abolitionist Movement
Possible bonus answers: The Temperance Movement, the Free Schools Movement, The Women's Suffrage Movement, a movement to treat prisoners better, a movement to treat the mentally ill better
This was before the use of electricity was common. The first factories were powered by ___________, and then later by ___________. (half credit if you can name only 1)
Water/rivers, then steam/steam engines
An American inventor, he popularized the use of interchangeable parts, and invented and patented the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
Many factory jobs were done by women during the Industrial Revolution. Why might factory owners prefer women for some jobs?
They could be paid far less than men for the same jobs.
This important US city was in the South (as part of compromise made by Alexander Hamilton), and as such owning enslaved people was legal. Banning the slave trade (the active buying and selling of people) in this city, but not the practice of owning people, was a key part of the compromise that allowed California to join the union.
Washington DC
Through the first half of the 1800s, starting with the Missouri Compromise, states were always admitted to the country in pairs. Why?
One free state and one slave state came in at the same time, to preserve the political balance of power about the issue in the Senate.
The advent of these (identical pieces in different machienes) allowed goods to be mass produced
Interchangeable Parts
An Illinois senator who wanted to create a trans-continental railroad starting in Chicago; in order to get Southern support for the project, he needed to make several concessions to them regarding slavery and the slave trade.
Stephen Douglas
The flood of people moving into cities in search of jobs, both from the countryside and via immigration, led to to a housing shortage. As a result, most of the working poor in cities lived in this type of building (hint- we put several of them in our town-to-city maps)
Tenements
These are the two locations of John Brown's most famous acts of violence, one in Kansas and one in Virginia. Half credit if you only name one (and I will be lenient on pronunciation)
Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
This act made demanded that Northern citizens aid slave catchers, removed right to trial by jury for African-Americans accused of being escaped slaves, and paid judges $5 for declaring and African-American free and $10 for declaring them an escaped slave.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850