Industrialization
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cotton gin | increased slavery, made clothes cheaper, and encouraged westward expansion to farm more land |
| telegraph | allowed people to communicate across vast distances for the first time, even across oceans |
| railroad | allowed people to travel quickly, even over mountains |
| rivers | main method of transportation in the South |
| North | had more railroads than the South |
| Erie Canal | connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and cut transportation costs by 95% |
| steamboat | allowed boats to travel upstream |
| lightbulb | encouraged the spread of electricity |
| power loom | led to the first computers by using punchcards |
| House of Representatives | the North had a higher representation here because of its larger population |
| 1790 | year Slater's Spinning Mill was founded |
| 1830 | year railroad invented |
| 1844 | year telegraph invented |
| 1879 | year lightbulb was invented by Thomas Edison, who tried over 2000 materials to find the right one for his filaments |
| spinning jenny | spun raw cotton into thread so it could be woven into cloth |
| Henry Ford | created a cheaper automobile and improved the assembly line, so workers could stand in one place and repeat the same step over and over, making the factory more efficient |
| unions | tried to improve working conditions and pay for workers |
| automobile | allowed people to travel where there were no railroad tracks, encouraged cities to spread out |
| South | grew more cotton than any other region |
| Northeast | had more textile factories and big cities than any other region |
| Northwest | grew mostly corn and wheat |
| Appalachian Mountains | had the biggest coal deposits in the eastern U.S. |
| Pennsylvania | had the most iron ore deposits |
| South Carolina | had more slaves than free people |
| strike | when union members refuse to work until owners meet their demands |
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