chapter 15 social studies

Question 0

Who invented the cotton gin?

Answer 0

Eli Whitney

The cotton gin helped plantation owners to become wealthy

Question 1

How did the industrial revolution change the way people lived?

Answer 1

• cotton gin increased the use of slavery.
• textile mills attracted females and farmers
• inventions improved farming which increased expansion
• interchangeable parts changed the production process

Question 2

What is a textile mill?

Answer 2

A factory where workers turned cotton into cloth

Question 3

Where where textile mills built? Why?

Answer 3

Near rivers, because the fast moving water powered the machines inside the mills

Question 4

How did America get the plans for the first textile mills?

Answer 4

Samuel Slater memorized the British plan for mills

Question 5

List some of the conditions workers in textile mills faced

Answer 5

Worked long 13 hour days, 6 days a week ( children )

Question 6

The south’s profits came from

Answer 6

Agriculture the north however made it’s profit’s through manufacturing

Question 7

What did Cyrus McCormick invent?

Answer 7

Reaper - a machine with sharp blades to cut grain ( can cut 4 times as much as a person )

Helped change the U.S from farmers to factory workers

Question 8

What did John Deere invent? How did it help the westward expansion?

Answer 8

Plow that helped farmers on the Great Plains. The steel plow allowed farmers to plow dry hard soil on the Great Plains.

Question 9

Erie Canal ( what was unique, building process… )

Answer 9

Project to connect the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.

It was expensive-7 million dollars

Question 10

Compare and contrast transportation by stagecoach, steam engine and steamboat

Answer 10

Stagecoach - Large horse drawn carriages, traveled on narrow rugged dirt trails, roads were swampy during rainstorms,travel was always slow in any weather.

Steam Engine - motor that is powered by compressed steam, able to pull a heavier load than a team of horses.

Steamboat - powered by a steam engine, invented by Robert Fulton, first steamboat named the clermont, first trip from NYC to Albany in 1807, took 32 hours to travel 150 miles, other boats 8 to 11 days, increased migration to the west.

Question 11

Who built the first steamboat

Answer 11

Robert Fulton

Question 12

What was Andrew Jackson’s nickname

Answer 12

Old Hickory

Question 13

What happened to the democratic republican political party during Jackson’s presidency

Answer 13

Split into democratic and national republicans

Question 14

What effect did Jackson’s decision about the government’s money have on the U.S

Answer 14

After president Jackson put all of the national money into local banks the nations faced the the first economic downturn

Question 15

In the 1800’s the U.S was also called the

Answer 15

Union

Question 16

What was the Indian removal act?

Answer 16

A law passed in 1830 which allowed the president to remove the native americans from their homelands and relocate them into indian territory ( Oklahoma )

Question 17

What happened to Davy Crocket after he told Jackson that the Indian removal act was wrong?

Answer 17

He lost reelection/his seat in congress

Question 18

What was the trail of tears?

Answer 18

The name given to the 800 mile forced march of 15,000 Cherokee in 1838 from their homes in Georgia to the Indian territory

Question 19

What caused the Irish to immigrate to the U.S. In the mid 1800s

Answer 19

Because of the potato famine, starvation, and they were coming for jobs, freedom, and a new start

Question 20

What were the major ports after the Erie Canal opened?

Answer 20

Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, and New Orleans

Question 21

What was unique about the clipper ship?

Answer 21

Fast, beautiful ships, could sail from Boston to Sanfransisco, in less than three months

Question 22

Steam engines made

Answer 22

Transportation faster and easier