Study Guide for Quest on Antebellum North and South
People: What is the MAIN accomplishment or most memorable thing about each person?
Robert Fulton:
Samuel Slater:
Cyrus McCormick:
John Deere:
Samuel Morse:
Eli Whitney:
Nat Turner:
Industrial Revolution in the North:
What started the Industrial Revolution in America?
What field was the first important breakthrough of the industrial revolution in?
Why did Great Britain not allow mechanics or skilled workers to leave the country during this time?
What is the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods known as?
What are interchangeable parts?
What enabled factory owners to build their factories wherever they wished instead of near water sources?
What was the primary source of fuel in America during and right after the industrial revolution?
What was the Rhode Island System?
What was the Lowell System?
What was life like for a Mill worker during the Industrial Revolution?
How long did Mill workers typically work a day?
What is a trade (labor) union?
What tactic did workers use to try and improve their working conditions during the Industrial Revolution?
What is buying on credit?
What product, which is stronger than iron and was used to make factories, machines, and train tracks during the Industrial Revolution known as?
Name some of the inventions of the Industrial Revolution:
How did locomotives effect American expansion?
What does a steamboat rely on for energy?
How did the Transportation Revolution effect travel, business, communications, and the environment during this time period?
Was the Industrial Revolution good or bad for society? What are some reasons it was or was not good?
The South:
What does Antebellum mean?
Who were the wealthiest members of southern society?
What were yeomen?
What caused the cotton boom?
What was the area known as the produced the most cotton in the South?
What were the advantages of using cotton as a cash crop as opposed to other crops?
What were the disadvantages of using cotton as a cash crop as opposed to other crops?
What negative impact did Cotton have on slavery?
How did the cotton boom help Southern Industry? How did this industry differ from industry in the north?
What problems did free African Americans face in the South?
What were some jobs slaves performed in the Antebellum South?
What was gang labor?
What was life like for slaves during this time period?
What were spirituals?
What are folktales? How do they relate to slavery?
Who was Nat Turner? What did he do?