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Slavery
Industrial Revolution
Connecting the Country
Reform Movements
Miscellaneous
100
What is a plantation?
A large farm in the south, with a large number of slaves. They grew crops such as cotton and tobacco
100
What type of power did James Watt's engine use?
Steam power
100
What is a canal?
A man-made waterway
100
What does suffrage mean?
the right to vote
100
What is the Underground Railroad
A series of safe houses that helped escaped slaves escape to the North or Canada
200
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
200
The first factories were built near what natural features? Why?
Rivers
200
Who invented a new "language" of dots and dashes for the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
200
religious festivals held in the countryside during the Second Great Awakening were called...
revivals
200
What African-American woman was the most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
300
What did abolitionists want?
To end slavery entirely
300
What are interchangeable parts?
Parts are made to be the same size and shape so that they can be easily replaced.
300
What is a turnpike?
A toll road
300
Pick three of these people and name which reform movement they were active in: Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Robert Owen, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, William Lloyd Garrison
FD-abolition SBA- womens rights RO- utopian communities DD- prisons and mental institution reform HM- public schools WLG- abolition
300
Name three facts about Irish (or German) immigrants in the 1840s and 50s
They all went to the north and lived in cities. They lived close to each other. They were made fun of by "native" people. They could not get good jobs, even though they worked for cheap.
400
Why did the cotton gin INCREASE the need for slaves in the south
It made cotton more profitable, so plantation owners needed more slaves to make more money
400
Describe the life of a girl in the Lowell textile mills
Worked long hours in cramped spaces, did repetitive jobs working with spinning machines, lived in dormitories with other girls, sent money home to parents, etc etc
400
How might the growth of railroads and canals be related to the Industrial Revolution?
Factories produced more goods, which needed to be shipped to the states in the west and to other countries
400
What is the difference between temperance and prohibition?
temperance=limit the consumption of alcohol prohibition=ban alcohol entirely
400
Women did not get the right to vote until 1919. However, they did earn many new rights in the 1800s, such as...
opportunity to go to school, new career fields such as teaching and writing, more property rights
500
How were the north and south connected economically?
The cotton grown on farms in the south was shipped to the north and sold. Then it was used to make textiles in factories, which were sent back to the south
500
What young man stole the idea for the spinning frame from a British factory and brought it to America?
Samuel Slater
500
Which canal connected New York City to the Great Lakes?
Erie Canal
500
Why did women become involved in reform movements?
Women were more religious and had time to spend arguing for reform, since they only worked in the home. Many women thought that improving conditions for others would eventually improve their own conditions.
500
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine were both admitted as states, but one was free and the other slave, so that the balance of votes in the Senate would remain even.