Vocabulary
The process where a person enters another country in order to live there.
Immigration
Device that allowed the transmission of information over long distances using coded signals.
Telegraph
Sped up the separation of cotton fibers from seeds.
Cotton gin
The _____________________ was a time when machines were invented to do work previously done by hand.
Industrial revolution
_________________ contributed to the growth of the American economy because they could move goods and people more efficiently up and down waterways, decreasing transportation costs.
Steamboats
A tax on imported goods.
Tariff
People moving from farms to cities to live and work; city life.
Urbanization
Allowed crops to be cut down faster.
Mechanical reaper
Pricing of goods in a free enterprise system is determined by _______________________.
Supply and demand
New York City became one of the largest cities in America after the completion of the ___________________________.
Erie Canal
A free market economy where goods and prices are determined by the market and not by the government.
Free enterprise
Being in the country, out of the city.
Rural
Improved farming processes and expanded usable land for farmers.
Steel plow
After the cotton gin was invented, the plantation system expanded and created a need for more ______________________.
Slave labor
System designed by Henry Clay to aid in the growth of the U.S. economy.
American system
The ____________________ determined which states would be allowed to enter the union as slave states or free states.
Missouri Compromise
Items made of cloth.
Textiles
___________________ fences helped farmers protect crops and cattle.
Barbed wire
The Industrial Revolution began in ___________________________ because of the abundance of rivers located there to power machines.
New England
Thousands of ____________________ immigrants came to America to escape a devastating potato famine.
Irish
Favoring native people of a country or those who were living there first and not favoring immigrants.
Nativism
The division of the country into sections or regions, each with their own social values, economic values, and political ideas and expectations.
Sectionalism
Led to the mass production of goods.
Interchangeable parts
Francis Cabot Lowell used the factory system to build mills in New England that often hired _______________ from the countryside.
Women
The __________________ was against a protective tariff and pushed for states' rights.
South