massive shift between a mainly agricultural society to a manufacturing process-based one
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
"Open" area of the United States where many pioneers settled to start new lives
What is the American west?
200
American industrialist who built his first factory along the Merrimack River and pioneered a new system of factory labor
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
200
Industrial process which allowed massive amounts of goods to be made by machines quickly instead of one-by-one with hands
What is mass production?
200
Term given to the South which refers to the basis of its economy
What is the "Cotton Kingdom?"
300
New York governor who battled for reforms favoring Catholics and poor debtors as well as fighting for the building of the Erie Canal
Who is Dewitt Clinton?
300
New economic system which transitioned America from having individuals manufacture most goods to having them produced by larger corporations
What is the factory system?
300
Cause for many Irish to immigrate to the United States in the mid-1800s
What is the potato famine?
400
German leader whose strict pro-Monarchy anti-revolutionary policies led many German political refuges to flee to the US
Who is Prince Clemens Von Metternich?
400
New system of factory labor pioneered in Massachusetts which allowed women and children to work for low wages
What is the Lowell/Waltham system?
400
Phase of the "triangular trade" in which slaves were transported from Africa to North America
What is the middle passage?
500
Failed German revolutionary who fled to America where he became a lawyer, Lincoln campaigner, Gettysburg general, US Senator, and finally Secretary of the Interior
Who is Carl Schurz?
500
Industrial process helped pioneered by Eli Whitney which allowed replacement parts to be instantly and readily available for guns and other manufactured goods
What is "interchangeable parts?"
500
Revolutionary construction technique which allowed buildings to be made quickly and cheaply out west