Industrialization 1
What is Industrialization?
The process of developing machine production of goods
What is a factory?
A large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods
What is urbanization?
The growth of cities and the migration of people to them
Who did the US buy Florida from
Spain
What does the term laissez faire refer to?
The idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries or businesses
Where did industrialization begin?
England/Britain
This person was against high tariffs and pushed for states rights.
John C Calhoun
What is division of labor?
When one worker specializes in doing one task
In the Adams - Onis treaty, what state did Spain keep?
Texas
This machine helps dirt not stick to a blade and plants seeds
Steel plow
What machine separate the seed from a cotton plant?
The Cotton gin
This area tried to settle disputes between the north and the south
The West
What is mass production?
The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items
What word means to be proud of your country?
patriotic
Identical parts that can be put together to make a product
Interchangeable parts
What is an assembly line?
an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in its manufacture
Ideology that promotes the creation of nations based on common cultural traits.
nationalism
What compromise was intended to end the argument between the north and the south
The Missouri compromise
What is economic interdependence?
A situation where people rely on others to provide the goods and services they need
What is capitalism?
An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit
This area favored manufacturing and urbanization
The North
What did Henry Clay suggest to make the north and the south happy?
High tariffs to help the north and to help build the transportation in the south
Name FOUR major improvements in transportation that spurred the Industrial Revolution?
Steam engine
steam boats
canals
improved roads
railroads
Why did the industrial revolution begin in the North?
rocky soil was not good for farming and they had plenty of rivers to power the factories
he created the factory system by stealing designs,
Samuel Slater