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Who invented the Cotten
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| Who invented the Telegraph? |
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| Who invented the Steamboat? |
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| Where were most of the nations early factories built? |
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| Workers and machines coming together under one roof usually near a source of water (power) was known as |
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| Where did young girls live in boarding houses and workerd in factories for 12 and a half hours a day? |
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| What were the advantages of interchangeable parts? |
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- Speed up production
- made repairs easy
- Allowed use of low paid, unskilled workers
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| how did the instructrial revolution change the way people worked? |
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- Factory machines replaced handtools
- Large scale manufacturing replaced farming as main form of work
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| What are other ways slaves would work? |
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- Domenstic servants
- Day laborers
- skilled craftsman
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| What was the effect of cotton production in the south? |
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| What are four important ways the cotton gin changed southern life? |
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- It triggered a move westward
- Increased cotton exports
- More Native Americans driven off land as it was taken over for cotton plantations
- Slavery grew becasue of a need for a large labor
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| What were a few hardships faced by the slaves? |
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- Often separated from families
- Could not hold religous services unless whites were present
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| Songs ni which slaves expressed their religious beliefs were called what? |
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| How did Fredrick Douglass's mother show resistance to slavery? |
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| Fleeing her plantation at night to come visit him |
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| Henry Clay proposed a plan to build a stronger exonomy known as the |
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| What four modes of transportion improved the economy? |
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- Canals
- Steamboats
- Improved roads
- Steam-powered trains
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| After Monroe took office there was a feeling of political unity known as what? |
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| In 1818 and 1819 the U.S. settled border disputes with which two countries? |
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| When a person puts interest in his or her own state or refion ahead of what is best for the rest of the country is know as? |
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| Missouri wanted to be entered into the union as a ? |
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| Some of the people of Missouri wanted to be entered into the union as a? |
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| If Missouri did not become a slave state then the south would? |
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| What was the Missouri compromise? |
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| Missouri would become a slave state and Maine would become a free state. |
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| What did the Missouri compromise do to the Senate? |
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| What issue did not get solved with the Missouri Compromise? |
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| Whether slavery would be abolished, or even if it could be under the Constitution. |
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| Who was the man who pleaded the south's case and said there would be war if the states continued to be divided over slavery? |
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| When the U.S. announced that America is closed to any more cololization by European nations, was called? |
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