Regions and Connections
This term describes loyalty to the interests of one region rather than the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This invention separated cotton fibers from seeds much faster than work done by hand.
What is the cotton gin?
This was the shift toward machine production and factory-based manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
This New York waterway connected the Great Lakes region with the Hudson River and Atlantic markets.
What is the Erie Canal?
This part of the American System was intended to provide a stable national currency.
What was a national bank?
In this economic system, buyers and sellers largely determine production and prices.
What is a market economy?
Contrary to what some might predict, the cotton gin caused the demand for this to increase.
What is enslaved labor?
This system organized machine production and workers inside centralized workplaces.
What is the factory system?
This invention allowed information to travel rapidly over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
This was an economic impact of the British blockade during the War of 1812.
What is the growth of manufacturing in the US?
Southern cotton supplied Northern mills, while Northern businesses supplied manufactured goods and financing.
What is interdependence?
This nickname expressed cotton’s enormous importance to the Southern and national economies.
What is King Cotton?
This manufacturing system placed the steps of textile production under one roof and employed many young women named for a town in Massachusetts.
What is the Lowell System?
Roads, canals, steamboats and railroads produced this major improvement in the movement of people and goods.
What is the transportation revolution?
This was one of the major causes of the War of 1812 in which American sailors were forced to fight for the British Navy.
What is impressment?
Warm weather, fertile soil and a long growing season encouraged this economic system in the South.
What is the plantation economy?
Cotton demand and the cotton gin combined to produce this major result.
What is the expansion of slavery into the Deep South?
These identical components made manufactured products faster to assemble and easier to repair.
What is interchangeable parts?
Industrial jobs attracted people to cities, producing this process.
What is urbanization?
What is nationalism?
The Erie Canal is an example of this part of Henry Clay's American System.
What is internal improvements.
Following this 1831 uprising, Southern states strengthened laws controlling enslaved people and restricted literacy and assembly.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
Mass production, new jobs and an increasing supply of affordable goods contributed to this transformation of the American economy.
What is the Market Revolution?
Potato famine pushed members of this immigrant group toward American cities, factories and day-labor jobs.
Who were the Irish immigrants?
These were trade restrictions on colonial trade. The enforcement of them caused resentment in colonists, especially those in New England.
What are the Navigation Acts?