Key Terms
Clue: This idea claimed immigrants were taking jobs from native-born citizens
Answer: What is nativism?
Clue: These improved movement of goods and people quickly
👉 Answer: What are steamboats and railroads?
Clue: An economy with little government control and freedom to produce goods
👉 Answer: What is free enterprise?
Clue: The War of 1812 caused this economic change
👉 Answer: What is increased U.S. manufacturing?
Clue: Name ONE effect of transportation improvements
👉 Answer: Trade increased / goods moved faster
Clue: People moving to cities for better opportunities
Answer: What is urbanization?
Clue: This invention allowed faster long-distance communication
👉 Answer: What is the telegraph?
Clue: This drives innovation in a free enterprise system
👉 Answer: What is competition?
Clue: One result of mass production
👉 Answer: What is cheaper goods OR faster production?
Clue: Name ONE result of mass production
👉 Answer: Lower prices / more goods
Clue: A compromise that temporarily settled slavery debates in new states (Has a state's name in it)
Answer: What is the Missouri Compromise?
Clue: One effect of improved transportation
👉 Answer: What is increased trade or movement of goods?
Clue: This determines prices in a free enterprise system
👉 Answer: What is supply and demand?
Clue: Why did prices decrease during the Industrial Revolution?
👉 Answer: What is mass production?
Clue: What did the cotton gin do to slavery?
👉 Answer: Expanded plantation system / increased demand for enslaved labor
Clue: A system that allowed goods to be made faster using identical parts
Answer: What are interchangeable parts?
Clue: Transportation improvements helped expand this economic system
👉 Answer: What is industrialization?
Clue: Opposite of free enterprise—government controls economy
👉 Answer: What is a command economy?
Clue: What caused rapid urbanization?
👉 Answer: What are factory jobs / job opportunities in cities?
Clue: What jobs were created during the Industrial Revolution?
👉 Answer: Factory jobs / manufacturing jobs
Clue: This innovation helped New York City grow by connecting inland trade
Answer: What is the Erie Canal?
Clue: These improvements helped connect which regions the most?
👉 Answer: What are the Midwest and Northeast?
Clue: This system encourages entrepreneurship and innovation
👉 Answer: What is free enterprise?
Clue: One effect of immigration on industrialization
👉 Answer: What is increased labor supply?
Clue: How did the North and South economies differ?