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Industrial Revolution

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How did the invention shown contribute to the free-enterprise system?

Helped with the movement of goods (faster)

What is the device in the image?

Steam engine

What was the reaction in the North to the pictured novel?

North was outraged

How would you compare the reason why the Chinese came to the U,S. in the nineteenth century to the reason why the Irish came?

Chinese came for gold rush, and the Irish came because of the potato famine

What is the connection between the Second Great Awakening and the Temperance Movement?

They both had to do with religious groups and both led to reform

What was Eli Whitney's intention when he invented the cotton gin?

He hoped it would put an end to slavery

What was the Bessemer Steel Process?

Produced steel more quickly and cheaply; about to build railroads, bridges

Who were some of the women's rights leaders during the mid-nineteenth century?

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Sarah and Angelina Grimke,

What was the one right women wanted most, and where did they have an important convention to discuss this?

suffrage (right to vote), Seneca Falls

How did the Industrial Revolution affect the role of women in society?

Women were working, and it led to women's rights reform

What was the American System and whose idea was it?

Henry Clay's idea where revenue from a tariff would go towards paying for improvements in the U.S.

Explain what the free-enterprise system is

People have freedom to produce and sell; free to buy what they please; supply and demand determines prices

Explain the significance of James Watt

improved the steam engine, and resulted in inventions like the steamboat, cotton gin, power loom, etc

Explain the significance of Eli Whitney

invented the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts, which helped make manufactured machines faster, more efficient, more profitable

Who do you think said the above quote and why?

Horace Mann; he felt education should be for all

How did groups like the Shakers and Amish react to the Industrial Revolution?

They wanted to create ideal societies

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