Vocabulary 1
A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.
What is Industrial Revolution?
The amount of goods available.
What is Supply?
The United States' belief that it was their God given right to move and expand west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Overcrowded and dirty due to mass urbanization of cities.
What are the city conditions during the Industrial Revolution?
Equation that describes demand for farmers.
Technology + Efficiency = -Demand for Farmers
Consumer willingness and ability to buy products.
What is Demand?
A machine that could spin several threads at once.
What is Spinning Jenny?
Men who lived off the land and trapped animals.
What is Mountain Men?
A group that fights for the rights and proper treatment of workers.
What are Labor Unions?
The invention that made sorting seeds from cotton faster.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Money for investment.
What is Capital?
Movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is Urbanization?
Region of the United States that wanted to expand west for farm land and the growth of the Cotton Kingdom.
What is the South?
An hourly rate ($) that is enforced by law.
What is Minimum Wage?
The financial gain made in a transaction.
What is Profit?
Identical components that can be used in place of one another in manufacturing.
What is Interchangable Parts?
(3) Reasons for the United States not wanting to annex, or add, Texas.
1. Texas being Bankrupt
2. Texas wanting slavery
3. Beef with Mexico
Type of transportation fueled by coal and steam that made moving west easier and cities grow.
What are railroads/trains?
The four major cash crops.
What is cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugar?
A person who has invested personal wealth in business.
What is Capitalist.
An arrangement to borrow money.
What is Credit?
What is Trail of Tears?
Fire that killed 146 women, immigrants, and children because of the poor working conditions of factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
The (2) farming technologies that made PLANTING and HARVESTING easier and faster.
What is the seed drill and reaper?