Early U.S. Economy and Industry
Which economic system was developing in the U.S. in the late 1700s and early 1800s?
What is Free Enterprise?
The first industry to change during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the textile Industry?
Inventor of the Cotton Gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
invention sent messages quickly through wires
What is the telegraph?
What is an apprenticeship?
What type of farmer grows food mainly for their own family?
What is a subsistence farmer?
This industry produces cloth products to make clothing.
What is textile industry?
Crop that became the main cash crop of the southern economy.
What is Cotton?
Inventor of the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse
A group that represents workers rights to better wages, or safety in the workplace.
What is a union?
Why did the United States rely on foreign goods in the late 1700s?
What is "it lacked developed industries"?
This invention sped up thread production in the 1760's.
What is the Spinning Jenny?
Region where cotton production was concentrated was known as this in the south.
What is the cotton belt?
Could move against the current and winds.
What is a steamboat?
When workers refuse to work to demand change in their workplace.
What is a strike?
A government policy that stops trade with another country.
What is an Embargo?
He secretly brought plans of British textile knowledge to the U.S.
Who is Samuel Slater?
This labor system expanded as cotton production increased.
What is slavery?
Law that allowed the Transcontinental RR to be built.
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
Who is Samuel Gompers?
A problem with Britain where they forced Americans to be in their navy.
What is impressment?
A manufacturing method uses identical parts to make goods quickly
What are interchangeable parts?
There were very few factories in the south due to this.
Where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific met and connected the United States.
What is Promontory Utah?
A major reform that unions pushed for regarding work hours.
What is the 8 hour workday?