Vocabulary
A house where room and meals can be purchased
boarding house
Name one of the important routes pioneers traveled westward on
Oregon Trail or Santa Fe Trail
He was the 7th president of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson
True or False: The invention of the cotton gin increased the number of slaves in the south
True
A factory where cloth is made
textile mill
Andrew Jackson's act that states that Native Americans had to move west of the Mississippi River
Indian Removal Act
This wealthy factory owner hired young women to work in his factories.
Francis Cabot Lowell
These women lived in boarding houses and worked long hours in factories.
The Lowell Girls
waterway dug by people to connect two bodies of water
canal
This canal made it possible to ship goods between New York City and the Great Lakes region.
The Erie Canal
This man in Britain memorized every part of a factory machine and build it in the U.S.
Sam Slater
Lewis Hine used photography to expose the brutality of what?
the edge of a country next to a wilderness
frontier
The tragic march of Native Americans from their land to the Indian Territory
Trail of Tears
This man invented the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
What is the function of the cotton gin?
It removes the seeds of cotton
the person who watches over slaves' work
overseer
A settler-colonial belief in the 19th-century U.S. that white American settlers were destined to expand across North America.
Manifest Destiny
He hated slavery and developed a plan to take over Charleston, but his plan failed.
Denmark Vesey
What was the slogan for cotton at that time?
Cotton is King or King Cotton