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1. Describe the differences between the lifestyles of wealthy, poor, and middle-class families (pp.254-255) 2. Identify how the “factory system” was introduced in the United States and explain its significance. 3. Explain and provide examples of how technology transformed life in 1800s America (p. 257) 4. Identify and describe THREE ways in which the Industrial Revolution was difficult for working families. (pp. 257-258) 5. Explain how factory workers in the North respond to difficult working conditions (p. 258) 6. Identify and describe the largest and 2nd largest groups of immigrants in the mid 1800s (p. 259-260). 7. Identify nativism and explain three reasons why many of the immigrants faced nativism. (p. 261)

1) What did the wealthy groups consist of? 2)Whats the system that cuts costs and increases output by relying on machines to help do everything under one roof? 3)Who introduced the Factory System? 4)What were the women called that worked in textile mills? 5)Identify 2 technology transformations in the 1800's? 6)How did workers respond the the bad working conditions? 7)What religion were the Irish immigrants? 8)What religions were the German immigrants? 9)Which group was the second largest group to come over in the 1800? 10)Define Nativism:

Answers: 1)Bankers, Manufactures, Merchants 2)The Factory System 3)Francis Cabot Lowell 4)Lowell Girls 5)John Deere Steel Plows, Cyrus McCormick’s mechanical reaper, Elias Howe’s invention of the sewing machine, cooking utensils, butter churns, better stoves, pots, Pans, water pumps 6)Unions & Strikes 7)Roman Catholic 8)Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish 9)German Immigrants 10)Favoring native-born Americans over the foreign-born; viewed them as inferior