Inventions
This invention allowed boats to travel upstream reliably, speeding transport of goods and people on inland rivers.
What is the steamboat?
The belief that Americans were destined to expand westward, used to justify territorial growth.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Many people left farms for these rapidly growing population centers near factories.
What are cities (urban areas)?
Economic system in which private individuals and businesses make most production and pricing decisions with limited government interference.
What is the free enterprise system (market economy)?
What are the 3 regions of the Original 13 Colonies
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
Economic and social effect: the cotton gin increased demand for this labor system in the South.
What is slave labor or slavery?
This 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States and encouraged westward migration.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Immigrants supplied much of the factory workforce; their arrival contributed to both cultural diversity and these urban challenges.
What are overcrowding and insufficient housing / urban problems?
When buyers and sellers freely interact to set prices and quantities, this determines allocation of goods.
What is supply and demand (market forces)?
What was considered the first Constitution in North America
What are the Fundamental Order of Connecticut
This device, developed by Samuel Morse and others, transmitted messages over wires using coded signals.
What is the telegraph?
Federal policy that relocated many Native American tribes to reservations, often after forced marches such as the Trail of Tears
What is Indian removal / reservation policy?
This invention revolutionized textile manufacturing by spinning many threads quickly; it was a key part of early industrial textile mills.
What is the spinning jenny (or power loom)?
One benefit: competition often leads to lower prices and better quality for these people.
Who are consumers?
What was considered the turning point of the war in the American Revolution
his innovation—making machine parts to a standard so they could be swapped easily—was popularized in early U.S. arms factories.
What are interchangeable parts?
Agreement that ended the Mexican–American War and ceded large territories (including present-day California and Texas border confirmation).
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Factories produced goods faster and cheaper, leading to growth in these businesses that sell goods to many customers.
What are mass-market manufacturers or industrial firms?
These financial institutions accepted deposits and made loans that helped entrepreneurs fund factories and railroads.
What are banks?
What is the name of the compromise that brought the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan together to create a bicameral legislature
This Eli Whitney invention separated seeds from short-staple cotton much faster than manual labor.
What is the cotton gin?
These workers built railroads and often faced dangerous conditions; many were immigrants
What is the Chinese
Standardized parts and mechanization led to the decline of this traditional skilled craft system.
What is the artisan or craft workshop system?
This industry expanded rapidly, using textile mills and factory labor to produce cloth in the early 1800s.
What is the textile industry?
What is the 8th Amendment to the Constitution
What is prohibited by the Eighth Amendment and protects against excessive bail and fines and protects against cruel and unusual punishment.