Key Terms and People
He opened a textile mill that combined spinning and weaving
Who is Francis Lowell?
This connected markets in New York and the midwest
What is the Erie Canal?
These allowed the U.S. to gain a larger share of the sea trade
What are Clipper Ships?
This state entered the union as a slave state
What is Missouri?
What is the increase in immigration?
He developed the system of interchangeable parts
Who is Eli Whitney?
What are railroads?
They transported raw materials and finished goods quickly and cheaply.
What are railroads?
This state entered the union as a free state
What is Maine?
Nativists felt that America belonged to this group.
Who are white Protestants born in the U.S.?
Who are nativists?
This invention resulted in the increase in cotton profits and the extension of cotton farms as far west as Texas.
What is the cotton gin?
This made traveling west extremely difficult.
What are road conditions?
The Louisiana Territory north of the southern border of Missouri had this status
What is free of slavery?
This was the change in the way people made goods beginning in the late 1700's
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This plan maintained the balance of slave and free states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This invention made manufacturing more efficient and less expensive.
What are interchangeable parts?
This is how immigrants had an impact on the transportation revolution.
This was what most southern whites did for a living
What is farming?
This invention speeded communication.
What is the telegraph?
He invented the steamboat
Who is Robert Fulton?
This is where the industrial revolution began
What is the textile industry?
This resulted in overcrowding, uncleanliness, and the risk of fires.
What is urbanization?
This was the basis for the economy in the north
What is manufacturing/industry?
This is the reason why the Industrial Revolution centered in the Northeast.