Building a national economy

Question 1

lives of workers

Answer 1

terrible, low wages. long day. full weeks. bad sanitation. no light. minimal breaks

Question 2

eli whitney

Answer 2

inventor of cotton gin

Question 3

cotton gin

Answer 3

machine that quickly and easily seperates cotton fibers from their seeds

Question 4

samuel slater

Answer 4

early english industrialist known as the father of the american industrial revolution

Question 5

steam engine

Answer 5

engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power

Question 6

tenement

Answer 6

room or set of rooms forming a seperate residence within a house or apartment

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factory life

Answer 7

poor

Question 8

unions

Answer 8

legally recognized as reps of workers in many industries in the us

Question 9

interchangable parts

Answer 9

made to specifications that ensure that they are so nearly identical that they will fit into any assemly of the same type

Question 10

railroads

Answer 10

means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles

Question 11

gadsden purchase

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29,670 square mile region of present day southern arizona and southwestern new mexico that was purchased by the united states in a treaty

Question 12

wilmont proviso

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designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the mexican war

Question 13

compromise of 1850

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5 bills passed by congress which defused a four year political confrontation between slave and free statesrevarding the status of territories acquired during the mexican american war.

Question 14

fugitive slave act

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plpart of comp of 1850 between southern slave holding interests and northern free soldiers

Question 15

uncle toms cabin

Answer 15

anti slaver novel by american author heriet beecher stowe

Question 16

dred scott case

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and landmark descision by the us supreme court in which the court held a “negro”

Question 17

kansas nebraska act

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alliwed people in the territories of both to decide weather or not to allow slavery within their borders

Question 18

harpers ferry

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john browns raid. an effort by white abolitionist john brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a united states arsenal at harpers ferry, viginia

Question 19

abes views of slavery

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claimed he was against slavery but never took action

Question 20

election of 1860

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19th election. served as the immediate impetus for for the outbreak of the american civil wat

Question 21

sectionalism

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restriction of interest to a narrow sphere.

Question 22

secession

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the act of withdrawing formally from union

Question 23

hattiet beecher stowe

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author of anti slavery novel uncle toms cabin

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dred scott

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enslaved AA man in us who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his family

Question 25

john brow

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american abolitionist who believed in armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the instutution of slavery

Question 26

stephen douglass

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designed of the kansas nebraska act

Question 27

popular soverignty

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the principle that the authority of a stat and its gov is created and sustained by the by the consent of its people through their representativesp

Question 28

industrial rev

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name of movement in which machines changed peoples way of life as well as their methods of manufacture