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Who are people that invest money into a company to earn a profit?
Capitalist
Entrepreneur
Financier
Industrialist
The time period when machines took the place of many hand tools and power by horses and people was replaced by flowing water and steam engines is referred to as what?
The Second Great Awakening
Industrial Revolution
Urbanization
The Great Hunger
The Industrial Revolution began in which country?
America
Great Britain
Australia
France
In the 1760s this machine significantly speeded up the thread making process.
Water frame
Loom
Spinning Jenny
Steam Power
A British man who illegally immigrated to America after memorizing Richard Arkwright’s spinning machines and became very successful with the help of Moses Brown.
Samuel Morse
Elias Howe
Samuel Slater
Cyrus McKormick
What is the rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical objects?
Mass Production
Interchangeable parts
Urbanization
Textiles
Who invented the system of interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
Isaac Singer
Richard Arkwright
Samuel Slater
What was a devise, designed in the 1830s, which used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances?
Telegraph
Thresher
Spinning Jenny
Sewing Machine
What is a form of intellectual property that gives the owner the right to exclude others from making, selling, and using an invention for a limited period of time?
Patent
Reaper
Thresher
Morse Code
What is the growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities?
Urbanization
Industrial Revolution
Expansion
Factory System
Which is not a problem that growing cities in America faced during the Industrial Revolution?
Streets became filthy
Lack of clean water
No sewage system
Overpopulation of dogs
What machine did the most to tie together raw materials, manufacturers, and markets across the country?
Steamboat
Railroad
Truck
Mechanical Reaper
America’s first railroad was pulled by what?
Horses
Mules
Oxen
Goats
America’s population grew rapidly in the 1840s with millions of immigrants entering the U.S. from where?
Asia
Africa
Western Europe
Canada
Who were people that wanted to preserve the country for white, American born Protestants in the 1840s?
Nativists
Nationalistics
Know Nothings
Yankees
African Americans did not receive equal treatment as whites in numerous ways in the 1830s and 1840s, which was not one of those ways?
Denied the right to vote
White immigrants were chosen before them
Not allowed to buy houses
Not allowed to work in factories
What was the first newspaper owned and run by blacks?
Freedom’s Journal
Liberator
North Star
Abolitionist Daily
Which was not a reason for how Southerners defended slavery?
Slavery is in the Bible
It was humane
Slaves had jobs, homes, and food
Slaves could have passes to go to the movies
Who often prowled the streets in the South looking for escapees and often kidnapped free African Americans?
Slave catchers
Sherriff deputies
Bounty hunters
Police
What document allowed Maine into the Union as a non-slave state, Missouri as a slave state, making the issue of slavery worse throughout America?
Three-Fifths Compromise
1820 Slave Compromise
Thirteenth Amendment
Missouri Compromise
Who led a group of slaves that rebelled against their white masters, killing around 60 white people in 1831?
Nat Turner
Thomy Lafon
Henry Blair
Norbert Rillieux
Who was not a significant African American inventor in the early to mid 1800s?
Thomy Lafon
Solomon Brown
Henry Blair
Norbert Rillieux
_______________________ is when the government is powered by the people of a country.
Democracy
Prejudice
Republicanism
Social Reform
What was the movement in the early 1800s when leaders preached that people’s actions determined their own salvation?
Second Great Awakening
Abolitionism
Suffrage
Prohibition
Many women were drawn to the ____________________________ movement to ban liquor, which their fathers and husbands drank too much of.
Temperance
Prison
Suffrage
Education
Who discovered that people with mental illnesses were imprisoned in cells with violent criminals and began a prison reform movement to change this?
Dorothea Dix
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
Harriet Tubman
Most of the early 1800s reforms began in which state?
Maryland
Massachusetts
Maine
Missouri
What was thefirst college for African American men? It was established in PA in 1854.
Lincoln University
Harvard
Princeton
Oberlin
What was the plan of the American Colonization Society?
Free all slaves
Send freed slaves to Africa
Have free housing for life
Let the White House serve them for a day
Which former slave was a believer in dialogue and in making alliances across racial and ideological divides? He became a prominent abolitionist in America.
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
In the 1830s, which former American president read antislavery petitions from the floor of the House of Representatives?
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
What was a network of people, both black and white northerners and southerners who secretly helped slaves reach freedom?
Underground Railroad
Abolitionism
Prohibition
The Liberator
Which former slave and famous abolitionist was nicknamed the Black Moses?
Nat Tuner
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was the first black woman to sue a white man in a United States court and prevail?
Sojourner Truth
Lucretia Mott
Cady Stanton
Louisa May Alcott
In the summer of 1848 ___________________ & __________________ held a convention in Seneca Falls, NY, to discuss equal rights for women.
Stanton & Alcott
Fuller & Mitchell
Mott & Stanton
Alcott & Mott
What was the first college for women in the U.S., that was established in 1837 in Massachusetts?
Mount Holyoke
Troy University
Lincoln University
The Women's College
Who became the first women in the U.S. to graduate from medical school in 1847?
Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Blackwell
Maria Mitchell
Margaret Fuller
By the mid 1800s American writers developed their own style of optimism and energy, exploring the _____________________ of America.
Uniqueness
Architecture
Animals
Religions
What was a movement in American Literature to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions?
Individualism
Transcendentalism
Suffrage
Abolitionism
Who became the leading transcendentalist asking Americans to question the value of material goods, stressing values from God?
Walden
Emerson
Thoreau
Melville
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