,Chapter 11 Study Guide Name:

Please answer in 2-3 complete sentences.

1)  Give four facts about the Industrial Revolution.

2)  How did Arkwright’s ‘water frame’ help the textile industry in England?

3)  Why was Samuel Slater important in the building of factories in the US?

4)  Why was Eli Whitney important to American manufacturing?

5)  How did the War of 1812 help create more factories in the North?

6)  What was life like in a New England ‘mill town’?

7)  Who were the Lowell Mill Girls? Describe their working conditions.

8)  How did laborers react to their conditions? What did they do to try and improve their lives?

9)  Who invented the steamboat Clermont, when, and where? How did steamboats change the economy in the US?

10) Describe the importance of Gibbon vs. Ogden.

11) How does a Steam Train work?

12) Why were trains so important to America’s economic development? (Give some details.)

13) What other industries came along with the rail system, mainly in the North, and why?

14) How did Morse’s telegraph work? How did it change America?

15) How did the steam engine change factory work?

16) Complete the chart:

Inventor / Invention / Year / Importance
Eli Whitney
Robert Fulton
Peter Cooper
Samuel Morse
John Deere
Cyrus McCormick
Isaac Singer

Study Guide for Chapter 12

  1. Name some agricultural products of the South. Why was cotton so important?
  2. How did a Cotton Gin work and why was it so important?
  3. When and where (specifically) did cotton production increase most?
  4. What is meant by the term “King Cotton” and how did it transform the South?
  5. Describe the process of producing cotton, from field to factory. How was the North involved? Why didn’t the South make its own factories?
  6. Describe life for the following groups with details, including whether or not they owned slaves.

Planters
Yeoman
Poor Farmers
Free African Americans

7.  How did a plantation work?

8.  What role did religion play in the lives of Southerners?

9.  What kinds of jobs did slaves do on Southern farms?

10.  Give five facts about living conditions of Southern slaves.

11.  List examples of laws and punishments used only for slaves.

12.  Describe aspects of Slave Culture…

Family/Community
Religion
Music
Ways of Resisting
(List at least 4)

13.  Name some slave rebellions. Give some details about Nat Turner’s Revolt.