Innovations
What innovation cleaned the cotton and took seeds out?
Cotton Gin
What transportation made it faster and cheaper to transport goods?
Railroad or Steamboat
Who primarily worked in factories?
Women and children
Define urban
City
In free enterprise, there is very little involvement from who?
The Government
You could describe the Industrial Revolution as the change of making things by hand to....
manufacturing in factories
Who invented the steamboat?
Robert Fulton?
What labor force did the South use on plantations?
Slavery
What word means the countryside
Rural
Nike comes out with a brand new shoe. Lots of consumers want them. But the story only has 20 pairs. What happens to the price?
it increases
What powered textile mills in the northeast?
rivers
The Eerie Canal made what a big city?
New York
Why did the Irish come to the U.S.?
potato famine
What did people move to the cities in the NE?
for economic opportunities
What changes as a result of supply and demand?
The price
What causes the U.S. to increase their manufacturing?
War of 1812
The telegraph allowed for faster _________________ across long distances?
communication
What group of immigrants moved to California for the Gold Rush?
Chinese
What were some issues because of the growth of large cities?
pollution, crowded, disease
What drives businesses to do well?
Profit
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
What is a canal?
Man-made river
What group of immigrants moved to the U.S. because they were facing political turmoil in their own country?
Germans
New York City was made big because of what?
The Eerie Canal
What is an entreprenuer?
Businessman
What invention allowed manufacturers to replace one part of something instead of replacing the whole product?
Interchangeable Parts
Did the North or South have more railroads?
North
Define nativism.
Treating the immigrants badly because they claimed they were taking their jobs
Were all of the major cities located in the North or the South?
North
Back in colonial times, what was it called where colonies had to buy and sell from their mother country?
Mercantilism