holbrooks eah 7:1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Eli Whitney | Developed the concept of interchangeable parts: |
| Factories | Interchangeable parts moved production out of households and into large _?_. |
| Factory | Using power-driven machinery and laborers assigned to different tasks is known as the __?__ system. |
| Mass Production | The making of large quantities of goods is known as what? |
| Industrial Revolution | A massive change in social and economic organization resulting from the replacement of hand tools by machines was known as what? |
| Great Britain | In what country did the replacement of hand tools with machines begin? |
| Rivers and streams, abundant coal, iron ore and cheap labor | List four things that made the Industrial Revolution possible in America: |
| International Trade | After the War for Independence, what was the primary source of income in America? |
| Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807 and the War of 1812 | What two things turned Americans' attention towards the development of industry? |
| Prevented goods to be shipped to Europe and blockades kept ships from sailing | How did an Embargo and War hurt American trade? |
| Samuel Slater | Who established the 1st successful textile factory in America? |
| Thread | What did the first factories produce? |
| Young Women | What kind of people did most of the work at the Lowell Mill in Massachusetts? |
| Northern agricultural system | What is the following describing: Farmers grew what they needed and rarely sold at markets; would concentrate on 1 or 2 crops or livestock and sell at market, then use the money to buy what they couldn't produce themselves |
| Cotton Gin - Eli Whitney | What invention helped set the South on a different course of development from the North and who invented it? |
| Clean the seeds from short-staple cotton | The invention that put the South on a different course from the North could do what? |
| Wealthy began buying up interior of South, planting short-staple cotton and buying slaves to work the plantations | How did a cotton cleaning machine cause slavery to expand? |
| 178,000/ 1,200,000 | Between 1790 and 1810, the South went from producing 3000 bales of cotton a year to _?_, and the slave population frose from 700,000 to _?_. |
| They did not have large cash crops that required many laborers to harvest | What is the chief reason farms in the North produced little demand for slavery? |
| American System | A proposed plan to unify the U.S. which was developing two different economies: |
| President James Madison | Who proposed the plan to try and unify the U.S. because it was developing two different economies? |
| Produce the manufactured goods for the South and West. | Under the plan to unify the U.S. economically, what was the North supposed to do? |
| Produce the agricultural and meat products for the North | Under the plan to unify the U.S. economically, what was the South and West supposed to do? |
| Protective Tariff | What part of the economic plan to unify the nation was designed to make foreign goods more expensive so that Americans would buy Northern manufactured goods? |
| A national bank | What part of the plan to unify the nation economically was designed to create a common currency and make borrowing money easier? |
| The building of transportation systems | What part of the plan to unify the nation economically was designed to make communication and transport of goods easier? |
| Tariff of 1816 | The South and West were opposed to the _?_ because it caused them to pay more for goods and buy more expensive Northern goods. |
| National | The _?_ Road was the first big road project of the Federal government. |
| Maryland to Illinois | What did the first big road project connect? |
| 363 miles | How long was the Erie Canal? |
| The Big Ditch | What was the Erie Canal nicknamed? |
| Hudson | The Erie Canal linked the _?_ River to Lake Erie. |
| Atlantic Ocean | The Erie Canal ultimately linked two huge bodies of water: The Great Lakes to _?_. |
| 12 years | The Erie Canal was so successful that it paid for its construction through tolls in how much time? |
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