Industrial Revolution
Who invented the cotton gin?
What is the period in the 19th century when the United States developed new technologies for moving people and goods?
Transportation Revolution
What is the term for being more loyal to your region of the country than to the country as a whole?
Sectionalism
What was the name for the network of routes that helped runaway slaves escape to the north?
The Underground Railroad
Name one push factor that causes Irish immigrants to move to the United States.
Textiles
Railroads were more common in the (North, South) while steam boats were more common in the (North, South).
North, South
What Tennessee city became a major railroad hub and center for cotton and slave trading?
Memphis
What does NINA stand for?
No Irish Need Apply
This system involved young women living and working on the factory premises in boarding houses.
Lowell System
What was the main purpose of both the Erie Canal and National Road?
To transport goods faster and cheaper
Who was the enslaved preacher who led a slave uprising in Virginia?
Nat Turner
Social reform movements such as women's rights/suffrage, abolition, workers rights, etc. were inspired by what religious movement?
Second Great Awakening
What is a push and pull factor in immigration? You must get both definitions correct to get the points.
Push factor: Something negative that makes you want to leave a place.
Pull factor: Something postitive that makes you want to go to a place.
During the Industrial Revolution, industry was most concentrated in which region of the country?
North/Northeast
What 3 bodies of water did the Erie Canal connect?
Lake Erie, the Hudson River, and the Atlantic Ocean
What was the overall goal of passing slave codes?
To limit the power of and increase control over enslaved people.
What caused women to band together and organize their own convention?
Their exclusion from the World Anti-Slavery convention in London (or more broadly, their exclusion from the abolitionist movement).
What was the movement to limit or ban alcohol called?
The Temperance Movement.
Interchangeable parts were first used to manufacture _________, but today they are used in nearly every area of manufacturing.
Muskets
Name as many of the 6 states that the National Road ran through as you can. 100 points per state.
Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Name all 4 groups that encompassed Southern Society before the Civil War.
Planters (wealthy plantation owners), yeoman farmers (farmers that owned few slaves), poor whites (did not typically own land), and slaves.
This former slave owner was from Tennessee and became an ardent abolitionist later in life. He published the Emancipator, an anti-slavery newspaper.
Elihu Embree
What is urbanization?
People moving to cities.