History Soars at Pheonix  

A Nation Grows and Prospers Powerpoint Questions

 

1. How did life transform for a growing number of Americans? (Slide 2)

 

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2. What is one question you might ask Lucy Larcom about working in a factory?  (Slide 3)

 

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3. What was the name of the new revolution that had begun?      (Slide 3)

 

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4. What is the definition of the Industrial Revolution? (Slide 4)

 

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5. Name one change that occurred during the Industrial Revolution? (Slide 5)

 

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6. What was the artist trying to tell with the painting on slide 6? (Slide 6)

 

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7. What machine did James Hargreaves invent? (Slide 7)

 

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8. What could a factory worker do with a spinning jenny? (Slide 7)

 

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9. What kind of power was used to power a spinning jenny? (Side 7)

 

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10. What is the definition of the term, capital? (Slide 8)

 

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11. What is a Capitalist? (Slide 8)

 

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12. What did the factory system bring together?  (Slide 9)

 

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13. Who invented the cotton gin? (Slide 10)

 

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14. What did the cotton gin do? (Slide 10)

 

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15. How did Eli Whitney speed up production?  (Slide 11)

 

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16. What is the idea of interchangeable parts? (Slide 11)

 

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17. Where must a water frame be set up near? (Slide 12)

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18. Define the term, Profit?  (Slide 12)

 

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19. What did the factory system bring together?  (Slide 13)

 

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20. How were workers in factories paid? (Slide 14)

 

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21. What did Samuel Slater build in 1790?  (Slide 14)

 

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22. What is the name of the first mill in America? (Is it the American Mill or Slater Mill?) (Slide 14)

 

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23. What causes the wheel to turn? (Slide 15)

 

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24. Why did mill owners use mostly women and children workers rather than men? (Slide 16)

 

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25. How many hours and days a week did a mill worker work?  (Slide 17)

 

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26. What was a Yankee?  (slide 20)

 

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27. What is a hazard?  (Slide 18)

 

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28. Name one hazard found in a city? (Slide 18)

 

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29. What disease spread quickly throughout cities? (Slide 19)

 

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30. Who made a fortune exhibiting rare animals? (Slide 19)

 

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31. What was the name of the Museum P.T. Barnum began? (Slide 19)

 

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32. What was a flatboat? (Slide 20)

 

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33. What was the name of the best traveled road in America? (Slide 21)

 

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34. What roads did the Lancaster Turnpike link together? (Slide 21)

 

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35. What is a toll?  (Slide 22)

 

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36. What is a turnpike? (Slide 22)

 

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37. What was a corduroy road?  (Slide 22)

 

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38. What did the National Road run from? (Slide 22)

 

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39. Who invented the steam engine?  (Slide 23)

 

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40. In 1787 what did Fitch show? (Slide 23)

 

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41. What record did Robert Fulton’s steamboat break? (Slide 24)

 

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42. What did Fulton’s record led to?  (Slide 24)

 

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43. What two bodies of water were linked by the Illinois and Michigan Canal?  (Slide 25)

 

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44. To meet the need for moving goods what was built? (Slide 26)

 

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45. What canal was started in 1817?  (Slide 26)

 

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46. What did Americans develop on July 4th after the War of 1812?   (Slide 27)

 

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47. Who became the new President in 1816?  (Slide 28)

 

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48. What was the “Era of Good Feelings?” (Slide 34)

 

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49. Who spoke about living in the South? (Slide 29)

 

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50. Who spoke about living in the North? (Slide 29)

 

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51. Why was a National Bank needed?  (Slide 30)

 

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52. What do the images on the dollar bill on slide 31 tell you about the changing life in America for Americans? (Slide 31)

 

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53. Who had no say in their own government?  (Slide 37)

 

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54. What is a Creole?  (slide 37)

 

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55. Why did the Native Americans oppose the Spanish government? (Slide 37)

 

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56. Who led the Mexican Revolution?  (Slide 38)

 

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57. In what year did Mexico win their independence? (Slide 38)

 

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58. Who liberated South America?  (Slide 39)

 

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59. What countries remained European in South America?  (Slide 39)

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60. Who were the “Black Seminoles?”  (Slide 40)

 

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61. What was the “Negro Fort?”  (Slide 40)

 

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62. What did John Quincy Adams convince Spain to do?    (Slide 41)

 

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62. How much did America pay for Florida?    (Slide 41)

 

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63. What did the Monroe Doctrine say?  (Slide 42)

 

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