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Jeopardy. Choose a category. You will be given the answer.You must give the correct question . Click to begin. Life in the New Nation. Monroe and Jackson. Mills and Thrills. Let’s Reform. Go West, Young Man!.
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Jeopardy Choose a category. You will be given the answer.You must give the correct question. Click to begin.
Life in the New Nation Monroe and Jackson Mills and Thrills Let’s Reform Go West, Young Man!
Eli Whitney invented this device that sped up the harvest of a southern cash crop by separating out the seeds.
What is the Cotton Gin? BACK TO MENU
Mostly in the south BACK TO MENU
This type of factory was very common and included large looms for making textiles
What are Textile Mills? BACK TO MENU
The MAJOR factor that kept wealthy Southerners from building factories was their lack of:
Available skilled workers BACK TO MENU
Between 1800-1865 what happened to the northern United States?
It became rapidly industrialized. BACK TO MENU
Who is Andrew Jackson? BACK TO MENU
What is impressment? BACK TO MENU
The practice of replacing federal jobholders with political appointees whenever a new administration assumes office.
What is the Spoils System? BACK TO MENU
Important doctrine (statement of beliefs) that stated the United States would not permit European countries to start or take over more colonies in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine? BACK TO MENU
Describe the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and what the journey for Native Americans resulted in.
Act forced Native Americans to give up land east of Mississippi River, for lands west of the Mississippi River. Cherokee to Oklahoma (Indian Territory) was known as the Trail of Tears. BACK TO MENU
What were some of the health risks to women who worked in textile mills.
-They could be overworked • -They were underpaid • The sound in the mills was very loud and could affect their hearing • They could inhale chemicals and get sick. (Kiss of death- threading the Bobbitt) BACK TO MENU
Because their small hands could reach into small areas of the machines, and they could fit underneath to clean. Plus they were paid much less than an adult. BACK TO MENU
Identify and describe THREE (3) new forms of transportation that aided the Industrial Revolution
-Canals- -Railroads- -Steamships- BACK TO MENU
In working mills, describe men, women and children would get paid.
Men- paid the Most Women- paid less Children- paid the least BACK TO MENU
In order to gain better working conditions what did factory workers begin to do?
Go on strike. Labor Unions. BACK TO MENU
Frederick Douglass Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth
Who are abolitionists? BACK TO MENU
What is the Underground Railroad? BACK TO MENU
Prohibition- no drinking BACK TO MENU
Who is Horace Mann? BACK TO MENU
“I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?” - Sojourner Truth
- Women should have equal rights… Leading to the Women’s Suffrage Movement BACK TO MENU
Idea that the United States was destined to expand from sea to shining sea.
What is Manifest Destiny? BACK TO MENU
Name THREE new territories that were developed during the time of Westward Expansion.
Mexico • Texas • California • Utah • Oregon BACK TO MENU
The Oregon Trail BACK TO MENU
After finding gold at Sutter’s Mill, people went to California in ___________ and their nicknames were inspired by the year.
What is 1849? BACK TO MENU