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  • What cash crop really contributed to the expansion of slavery during the nineteenth century?
    cotton
  • Explain the significance of James Watt
    improved the steam engine, and resulted in inventions like the steamboat, cotton gin, power loom, etc
  • What was Eli Whitney's intention when he invented the cotton gin?
    He hoped it would put an end to slavery
  • 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
  • Who were some leading abolitionists during the nineteenth century?
    William Lloyd Garrison, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth
  • What were some inventions that made farming more efficient?
    steel plow, McCormick's Reaper
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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,
  • Why were slaves never really used in the North?
    Their economy didn't lend itself to needing slave labor
  • What was the Bessemer Steel Process?
    Produced steel more quickly and cheaply; about to build railroads, bridges
  • 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.
  • How did groups like the Shakers and Amish react to the Industrial Revolution?
    They wanted to create ideal societies
  • How did the invention shown contribute to the free-enterprise system?
    Helped with the movement of goods (faster)
  • How did the Industrial Revolution affect the role of women in society?
    Women were working, and it led to women's rights reform
  • What is the device in the image?
    Steam engine
  • Who were two men that helped people with disabilities during the nineteenth century?
    Louis Braille, Thomas Gallaudet
  • Who were some leading abolitionists during the nineteenth century?
    William Lloyd Garrison, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth
  • What was the reaction in the North to the pictured novel?
    North was outraged
  • Who were some leading abolitionists during the nineteenth century?
    William Lloyd Garrison, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth
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