Industrial Revolution
The country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is Britain
What group of immigrants were moving to the northeast?
What is German and Irish immigrants.
Many people tried to make money this way.
What is mining for precious metals?
Why was the literacy rate low?
What is there was no public education system and a lot of slaves
What is the Free-Enterprise system?
What is the is an economic system where people have the freedom to operate with minimal government intervention, meaning they can make their own decisions about production, pricing, and investment with little regulation
Industrial Revolution means _____________
factories
What was the main job in the north?
What is factories?
These people were highly discriminated against during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
What made slavery worse duing the industrial revolution?
What is the cotton gin.
What type of mill would a Spinning Jenny be at?
What is a textile mill?
What did the Industrial Revolution do to the cost of items?
What is decreased the price.
Who invented the textile mills?
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell
People were able to own land as long as they promised to stay for 5 years.
What is the Homestead ACt of 1862?
Why was the south not as technologically advanced as the north?
What is because they focused on an agriciltrual based economy.
What is an interchageable part?
What is parts that are identical, mass-produced pieces that can be easily replaced if one breaks.
How people made goods before the Industrial Revolution
What is by hand- Cottage Industry
What were the factory conditions like in the north? Name 2-4 things.
What is bad air, long hours, low pay, dangerous, etc.
What are the two main job sources in the west if you weren't a farmer?
What are mining or the railroads.
What are 3 farming innovations?
Who cotton gin, steel tipped plow, threshing maching and mechanical reaper
The amount of hours that people worked in factories and how many days
What is 11-14 hours a day, 6 days a week
What are two ways the Industrial Revolution impacted Americans?
What is-decreased prices, increased speed, made factories, etc
What were 3 inventions that impacted the north?
What are canals, steamboats, railroads, turnpikes, textile mills and the telegraph.
When these territories from Mexican Cession (after U.S. Mexican War) became states they decided if they wanted slavery or not.
What is Utah and New Mexico from Mexican Cession?
What is it called when people voted on the issue of slavery?
What is Popular Sovereignty