Inventions An Technology
This machine spins cotton fibers into thread. Began the growth of textile factories.
The Spinning Wheel
A simple, flat-bottomed boat used for transporting goods on shallow rivers.
flatboat
Moving into a country to live permanently.
immigration
The shift from hand-made goods to machines and factories.
Industrialization
Besides cotton the other most popular crop in lower Louisiana was.
Sugar Cane
The term for any product made of cotton.
Textiles
This new type of boat powered by an engine changed river travel forever.
steamboat
Moving out of a country to settle somewhere else.
emigration
A company that completely controls an industry with no competition.
monopoly
Why was Louisiana a crucial area for trade with other regions of the United States.
Access to the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico through New Orleans
This invention uses steam and multiple chambers to efficiently boil liquids, revolutionizing sugar production.
Multiple-effects evaporator
He cleared the Great Raft on the Red River, making river travel safer.
Henry Shreve
A disease that struck Ireland in the 1800s killing many crops.
Potato Blight
Areas close to cities that grew rapidly as factories offered new jobs.
urban areas
Inventor of the cotton gin, which sped up cotton processing.
Eli Whitney
The inventor of the steamboat.
Robert Fulton
Fear of or hostility toward immigrants in favor of native born citizens.
nativism
One negative effect of industrialization on workers.
low pay, long hours, or unsafe working conditions
The inventor who improved sugar-making with his multiple-effects evaporator.
Norbert Rillieux
A giant log jam on the Red River that blocked travel for decades.
Great Raft
Give one reason immigrants were drawn to the United States during the 1800s.
economic opportunity, land, jobs, or escaping famine/war
As Industry grew in the North in the south the economy was becoming solely a.
Agrarian Economy