A Nation Grows and Prospers

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A Nation Grows and Prospers

Powerpoint Questions

Instructions:

Use the Powerpoint presentation to answer these 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, use your own opinion)

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

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9. What is a Capitalist? (Slide 8)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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20. What was a Yankee? (Click on link on slide 20)

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

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

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

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24. What was a flatboat? (Slide 20)

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25. What roads did the Lancaster Turnpike link together?

(Slide 21)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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