Answer Key for Teachers Fasttrack to America's Past
Section 4:  The Growing Years
Page 4 - 21 and 4 - 22   Growing Capitalism, Industry, and Cities
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The Pictures:
 
1.  A blacksmith making an iron object by hand.  When heated in a furnace, iron becomes soft enough to hammer into hooks, hinges, horseshoes, etc.  The heavy iron anvil sits on an upturned log in front of the blacksmith.

2.  A factory owner of the early 1800s.  Many were merchants who risked their savings on the new spinning and weaving technology for making textiles (cloth.)

3.  A worker operating a machine in a factory.  Notice the pulleys and leather belts that connect to overhead shafts turned by water wheels or steam engines.

4.  The arm and hammer symbol.  It is a common image used to represent the labor union movement.
Answers for the blanks:
(See the word bank at the bottom of 4 - 22.)
 
1.  ...or at home.
2.  ...as a sin.
3.  ...plain old greed - as...
4.  ...exact same pattern...
5.  ...by water wheels...
6.   ...new jobs and...
7.   ...even worse when...
8.   ...very few people...
9.   ...an equal role...
10.  ...fiercely opposed labor...
11.  ...industrialized North and...
12.  ...would not accept.


Names and Terms List:

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