Transportation
This canal, completed in 1825, connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal
Eli Whitney’s invention that sped up cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
Young women who worked in textile mills in Massachusetts.
Who were the Lowell Mill Girls?
Americans began producing goods to sell instead of for personal use—this is known as what kind of economy?
What is a market based economy?
This invention allowed boats to travel upstream against the current.
What is the steamboat?
Whitney’s idea that allowed machines to be repaired quickly with identical parts.
What are interchangeable parts?
The Market Revolution helped create this group between the rich and the poor.
What is middle class?
People moved from rural farms to growing factory cities, a process called ____
What is urbanization
These transportation lines connected cities and made shipping faster
What are railroads
This invention by Samuel Morse allowed instant long-distance communication.
What is the telegraph
Poor working conditions in factories led to the rise of early ____.
What are labor unions
Many workers began earning this type of income for their labor.
What are wages?
Better transportation systems connected these three major U.S. regions — the North, South, and__?
What is the west?
These inventions—like the steel plow and mechanical reaper—helped increase productivity in this economic sector.
What is algriculture
This group of people, once mostly confined to domestic work, began entering the workforce in larger numbers.
Who were women?
The Market Revolution led to a new system where factories mass-produced goods using machines—what was this called?
What is industrialization