History - Chapter 10: Grade 7

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What is the Industrial Revolution?

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What is the Industrial Revolution?

It took hold in the United States in New England around the 1800s. It was a time technology took hold of the United States. Factories began to grow as well.

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Why did the Industrial Revolution take place in New England?

  1. Rivers and streams provided waterpower to run the machinery.

  2. New England had resources, such as coal and iron.

  3. Traded with the Southern Colonies’ cotton from the South and finished cloth from New England.

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How did Eli Whitney have an important role in the Industrial revolution?

Because he made the cotton gin which made things more efficient because it could clean/separate seeds from the cotton as fast as 50 people picking it by hand.

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What types of hardship would a pioneer family face traveling west into new territory?

  1. The bumpy terrain

  2. Animals

  3. Weather (list at least 3)

  4. Native Americans.

  5. Sicknesses

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What did the canals do to make the United States better?

It allowed travel to be faster, and allowed goods to be shipped. It brought prosperity to the towns and united the growing country.

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Name 3 things the Missouri Compromise stated.

  1. Missouri would be admitted as a slave state.

  2. Maine became a free state.

  3. Slavery was banned in the remaining part of the Louisiana Territory.

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Who invented the steamboat, and what did the steamboat help do?

Robert Fulton. With steamboats, you could go upstream, carry goods, and carry people.

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What was life like for a Mill girl?

Their life was hard because they had to leave their families.  Then they would work in a mill that was sometimes locked for more than 12 hours. The only lighting they had was candles so there might have been a lot of fires.

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Why was the Missouri compromise established?

to maintain a balance between the north and the south

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