He built the first successful water-powered textile mill in America. It was located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and initially employed eight children between the ages of 7 and 12.
Who was Samuel Slater?
100
Short for engine, this machine made the cotton-cleaning process far more efficient. With one of these, one worker could clean as much as 50 pounds of cotton in a day.
What is the cotton gin?
100
He led a slave rebellion in 1831, with 70 followers and killing 55 white men, women, and children.
Who was Nat Turner?
100
A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country.
What is nationalism?
100
Loyalty to the interests of your own region of the country, rather than the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
200
This was when factory machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming ad the main form of work.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
He invented a machine to efficiently clean cotton. Coincidentally, he was also responsible for inventing interchangeable parts.
Who was Eli Whitney?
200
They were often trained as domestic servants, skilled craftsmen, factory hands, and day laborers.
Who were city slaves?
200
These are causes of nationalism in early America.
What are the War of 1812; the system of canals, roads, and train tracks that connected large parts of the country; and the agreements between the US and Britain and Spain that established and expanded our national boundaries?
200
When this territory applied for statehood in 1817, it threatened to upend the balance between slave and free states in the US Congress.
What is Missouri?
300
Because of these, production of manufactured goods was sped up, repairs were easier, and lower-skilled, less paid workers could be used.
What are interchangeable parts?
300
This was an example of the expansion of cotton farming as a result of the cotton gin.
What is the vast move westward in northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas?
300
These were hardships faced by slaves on plantations.
What were the sale of family members away from one another; back-breaking conditions on the plantations; and beatings.
300
This Supreme Court case upheld federal authority by ruling that a state could not tax a national bank. It consequently strengthened the national government.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
300
These were some early causes of sectionalism in the US.
What are economic changes that meant Southerners relied on cotton and slavery; the North relied on manufacturing; and the West wanted cheap land and good transportation?
400
Trade and transportation along the Mississippi River were made easier due to this invention.
What is the steamboat?
400
This is the number of pounds of cotton that could be cleaned in one day prior to the invention of the cotton gin.
What is one pound?
400
In response to these, legislatures passed harsh laws that kept free blacks from and slaves from having weapons or buying liquor. Furthermore, whites killed more than 200 African Americans in revenge.
What were slave rebellions?
400
This political party essentially disappeared around this time, unifying the country, more or less, under one political party.
What is the Federalist Party?
400
Brought about by a growing fear that European powers would try to reestablish colonies in the Americas, this showed that the United States was a world power and a protector of Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
The naval blockade at this time forced Americans to start manufacturing their own goods. It stopped investors from investing in shipping and trade an forced them to invest in new American industries, thus playing an important role in the Industrial Revolution.
What is the War of 1812?
500
Cotton farmers in the south planted more cotton as the demand grew. Because growing cotton required a large workforce, this continued to be an important source of labor and brought it further south and to the west.
What is a cause of the spread of slavery?
500
this included reading Bible stories (in particular, the story of Moses) and singing spirituals, or religious folk songs, that contained coded messages about escapes or an owner's unexpected return.
What are the ways slaves used religion to resist slavery?
500
In stopping Seminole raids on white settlements, General Jackson chased the Native Americans back to this area and claimed it for the US. Although President Monroe made him withdraw, Monroe gave the Spanish an ultimatum - police the area or give it to the US. The Adams-Onis Treaty gave us this territory in 1819.
What are the events that allowed the US to gain Florida?
500
The state from which this act of Congress got its name was admitted as a slave state, while Maine was admitted as a free state, therefore upholding the system of balance in the legislature.