Economy of North
Unsafe working conditions and long hours were challenges faced by ---
factory workers
Reformer for the availability of education for all children
Horace Mann
What crop was known as "King"
Cotton is KING
The rapid changing in the creation of goods brought about by technological advances that allowed for mass production
Industrialization
Invention by Eli Whitney that increased the profitability of plantations
Cotton Gin
Factories wanted to hire immigrants because---
(worth 500 points)
they were a cheap source of labor
Reform effort that sought to end the practice of slavery
Abolitionist Movement
Demand for Cotton=_________________
Connected different bodies of water, which improved shipping:
Canals
The sending of electrical impulses, usually in code language, along a wire
Telegraph
In a wage labor arrangement, who earns the most money?
Factory and Business Owners
Leader who campaigned for caring for the mentally ill and prison reform
Dorothea Dix
climate in the south
mild, warm climate
What is the subject of the above list?
Industrialization
Increased the capacity and speed for river travel
Steamboar
overcrowded apartments, poor sanitation systems were descriptions of what kind of housing
tenement housing
1848 convention seeking the advancement of women’s rights
Seneca Falls Convention
Dred Scott V. Sanford: What was the ruling of the supreme court?
Worth 500 points
He must remain slave because he was not a citizen in the eyes of the constitution.
Alot of young women in the industrialization era worked in ____________ factories
Textile
The uniformity of products allowed for common components to be swapped
Interchangeable Parts
Before the Industrial Revolution, where were most goods manufactured in America?
family homes
Restriction of alcoholic beverages
Temperance Movement
what right could some free african americans have but not enslaved african americans?
The right to own property
Movement of people from rural areas to cities
Urbanization
With the invention of the steamboat, what did this do for the economy of the US------
(Worth 1,000 points)
allowing more efficient movement of goods