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Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 28mins
The great shift to a society that relied on machines to make and do things is known as the
(a) .
Beginning in the late (a) machines were invented that could more quickly do the
same work that people were doing by hand.
New (a) also changed how people traveled and how they
sent messages over long distances.
The Industrial Revolution began in (a) .
The British tried to keep secret how they used moving water in streams and rivers to
(a) machines
A man by the name of (a) , who had worked
in a British factory with water-powered machines, moved to the United States and
brought those secrets with him.
Slater built the first factory on U.S. soil. This was a (a) ,
a factory that produced cloth and other woven fabrics.
Inventions such as the ______________________ and the ________________________
_____________________ made farming on a large scale possible in the United States.
(a)
With these inventions, (a) could harvest and prepare crops for market faster and
easier.
Improvements in (a) helped move people and goods
in a faster and cheaper way.
________, ______, ________, And _________ also led to the growth of cities
(a)
Between 1790 and 1820, the population of the United States grew, from about (a) million
to nearly 10 million.
For poor people, the land in the (a) offered a chance to build a new life.
Settlers rushed into western Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New York and beyond. Some of
this area later became the states of ________, _________, and __________.
(a)
A person who moved into the area west of the Appalachians was called a
(a) .
Even though we call the white settlers who moved into this area pioneers, they were
not the first people in these lands. The (a) had lived in this area for centuries.
(a) was an experienced explorer who was chosen to
help find an inland trail from North Carolina to Kentucky.
A natural passage through the Appalachian Mountains was found which they called the
(a) .
As settlers moved west, the argument about (a) would come up.
Many settlers from the (a) wanted to bring their enslaved workers to the western
territories.
In 1819, (a) applied for statehood as a slave state.
At this time, the nation had a balance of __slave states and __free state in which
slavery was not allowed.
(a)
Letting (a) enter as a slave state would give slave states more votes in the U.S.
Senate.
Under the (a) , Missouri was added
as a slave state. Maine, which had been a part of Massachusetts and asked to become a
state, became a free state.
The compromise stated that, in the future, slavery would not be allowed in any states
(a) of Missouri’s southern border.
By the time of the Missouri Compromise, the (a) had changed significantly.
A nation that had begun with 13 states now had (a)
More (a) came to the United States at this time than ever before.
