Industrial revoulution and Second Great awakening

Where did the industrial revolution start?

England

What part of the industry did they focus on?

Textile

What is the Spinning Jenny

allowed several strands to be spun at the same time using strength.

What is the Water Frame?

machine using waterpower to spin multiple threads.

True or false: People left their homes and work at other places

True

What happened in 1790?

Arkwright built the first steam powered textile plant in England.

Who is Slater and what did he do?

a British apprentice who trained in American factories and built a efficent cotton mill and made it successful

Who is Francis Lowell and what did he do?

An american businessman who went to England to see the latest inventions in textile industry. He returned to America and built an improved version of the machines (spinning and weaving).

Who were the Lowell girls?

Ladies who lived in boarding houses. They recieved an education, attended church, and had a strict schedule. (worked)

True or False? The production decreased and no one was working

False: the production increased and more jobs were created.

What kind of children and how did they work during the day?

Children as young as 7 would work 10 hours a day in very unsafe conditions.

What is urbanization and how did it happen in Northern states?

People moved from the countryside to cities because industry came faster in the north.

How were the cities conditions?

Air was filthy, water was dirty.

True or false? Housefires grew common

True

When and how was Morse Code invented?

In 1844, Mr. Morse send a message (from DC to Baltimore) “What hath God wrought?” Thousands of miles of wire strung across the nation for fast communicating.

What changed the way of harvest?

Reapers (cutting the wheat stalks) and threashers (seperating stalks from kernals of wheat) became more efficent

True or False: Sewing machine made thing more easy and affordable?

True

What were steam engines used for?

Trains, factorie, farm, railroads

What was invented in 1793?

The Cotton Gin. It made cotton production 50x faster and Alabama and Mississippi were the greatest consumers of this.

What was The Great Potato Famine?

(1845-152) A fungus had grown on its main food potatos and had killed millions of Irish people. Due to this, most of Ireland moved to America.

Why did the Germans move to America

Land had been under wealthy aristocrats, this lead to rebellion which was failed. Most settled west of Appalachian Mountains to Ohio Valley.

What was The Second Great Awakening?

In the 1800s, revival meetings were held to call others to repentance and turn to God (“for the Spirit to descend again.”)

Who was Revert Cane?

He lead the most famous camp meeting in Kentucky with a number of 23,000 people who came.

Who was President Dwight?

He preached a series of weekly sermons to the college Yale for 4 years. In 1801, atleast half of the student body converted to Christianity.

Out of all preachers, who was the most influential and what did he say?

Charles Finney believed that the gospel doesn’t jsut get you saved, it also means cleaning up the society.

Who did he help and influence?

America to became a mainly Christian nation, anti slavery, schools, prison, womens rights, and other society issues.