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Industrial Revolution
The North Transformed
Plantation South
Americans Move Westward
Key Terms
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What is a factory system?
Brings workers and machinery together in one place
100
What is one of the problems that growing cities faced?
Filthy streets,bad drinking water, or dirty sewage systems
100
What is a revolt ?
Uprising;Rebellion
100
What are canals?
Channel that is dug across land and filled with water.
100
What are corduroy roads?
Roads made of sawed off log laid side by side
200
What is one of the disadvantages of having riverbanks in the dry season ?
The machines had no power, labor was hard to find in rural areas, or most factories were far from cities.
200
What did Samuel F.B. Morse invent?
A telegraph
200
Name one thing African Americans did not have the right to do.
Could not vote, serve in juries, or testify against white defendants in court.
200
Who used the many early roads?
Deers and Bison
200
What are turnpikes
Toll roads
300
Who built the first steam powered textile plant?
Richard Arkwright
300
What did African Americans sing?
Spirituals
300
State 2 reasons were the roads terrible.
Unpaved and were dotted with tree stumps.
300
What are spirituals?
Religious folk songs from the bible
400
Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
England
400
Why did many people leave Ireland
They left because of famine
400
Who led the most famous slave revolt in 1831?
Nat Turner
400
How did turnpikes get their name?
They would swing across the road.
400
What are slave codes?
Laws that controlled every aspect of African Americans life.
500
What is one of the most important developments
Mass production
500
What was the main food for Ireland
Potato
500
How many whites got killed during the time?
60
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What did you have to do to get by turnpikes?
You would have to pay the toll.
500
What is a cotton gin.
Spiked cylinder that removed seeds from cotton fibers