Farming and Foreign Goods
Crops grown to sell for a profit know as this.
What is Cash Crop?
Slater was originally from this country.
What is Britain?
This “revolution” changed how people worked.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This school helped people who were blind get an education.
What is Perkins School for Blind?
What major event caused many Irish to immigrate to the U.S. in the 1840s?
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
Large families common in the early 1700s in rural areas for this
What is they provided labor for farms?
Slater disguised himself as this when moving to the U.S.
What is a farmer?
New machines helped businesses do this.
What is grow or get bigger?
This movement said rich and poor kids should all go to the same schools.
What was the common-school movement?
During which decades did over 4 million Europeans immigrate to the U.S.?
What are the 1840s to 1860s?
Besides farmers, name one type of skilled worker found in small towns during the 1700s.
What are carpenters and blacksmiths (also acceptable: tailors)?
Slater did this to secretly bring British industrial knowledge to America.
What is memorized the spinning jenny plans?
Most textile mills were built in this part of the U.S.
What is the Northeast?
He led the common-school movement and worked to improve public schools.
Who was Horace Mann?
In which U.S. region did many Irish immigrants settle?
What are Northeastern cities like Boston and New York?
The kind of economy did most Americans participate in during the early 1700s.
What is an agrarian (farming-based) economy?
This inventor proposed making muskets with interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This spinning machine helped make thread fast.
What is the spinning jenny?
This college in Ohio was the first to admit African American students.
What is Oberlin College?
What did nativists believe immigrants would take from them?
What are jobs?
What was the first industry to be transformed during the Industrial Revolution?
What is the textile industry?
Whitney's demonstration impressed this U.S. President.
Who is John Adams?
From which two countries did most immigrants arrive during that time?
What are Ireland and Germany?
This man, a former slave, started the Free African Religious Society.
Who was Richard Allen?
What was the name of the crowded apartment-style buildings many immigrants lived in?
What are tenements?