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Why did skilled workers have more success at forming unions than other workers?
They were harder to replace
How did the Hudson River School artists reflect their love for their country?
They portrayed magnificent American landscapes.
What was the long, slow process that changed the way goods were produced that began to spread to the United States?
Industrial Revolution
How did Frederick Douglass defy the laws on slavery
He learned to read.
What invention made it easier to fix muskets by using identical parts that would fit with other parts?
Interchangeable Parts
What did social reform want to accomplish?
To fix societies imperfections
Factory machines needed a source of power to function, so many early factories were built next to what?
Rivers or bodies of waters
The earliest organized opposition to slavery was based on what beliefs?
Religious beliefs
What role did capitalist play during the Industrial Revolution?
Invested money into factories
What protected slaves from the worst forms of abuse?
Slaves were considered to be valuable property.
Why was the South dependent on the North and Europe for non-agricultural goods?
The South had very little factories
How did enslaved African Americans resist their enslavement?
By working slowly, breaking equipment, destroying crops, and running away
In the North, what did immigrants and African Americans have in common?
Faced discrimination
Describe what cities were like during these time
Dirty and unsafe to live in.
One result of the invention of the cotton gin was?
An increase in the demand for slave labor
How did the invention of new farm machines contribute to urbanization in the North?
New farm equipment required less people. People were forced to leave farms for cities and work in factories
What was the main reason that there were 20 times as many enslaved African Americans in the South as in the North by 1800?
The southern economy depended heavily on slave labor.
Why were the Know Nothings considered a nativist party?
Know Nothing were nativist because they were anti immigrant and wanted to perverse the country for native born, white people.
What was the main reason many business owners in the North opposed abolition?
They depended on a steady supply of cotton from the South
The growth of what allowed raw material and goods to be transported cheaply and quickly?
Railroads/Trains
How did The Underground Railroad function?
Conductors would guide escaped slaves during night to Stations belonging to white and black abolitionists, following the North Star.
What advantage did factories that used steam power over water have?
They could be built anywhere and produce more goods.
What was the main argument of the Second Great Awakening?
People could reach salvation based on their own actions and it was no longer predestined.
What were the push and pull factors for Irish and German immigrants?
Push - Famine, or food shortage
Push - Economic Opportunity
How were most southern whites connected to the plantation system?
Most had little direct connection because they owned small farm