Industrial Revolution
This system brought workers & machines together in one place.
Factory system
This invention increased the demand for slave labour
Cotton Gin
Logs put together were called
Corduroy Roy
Name of inventor & machine that separated cotton seeds from fibres
Eli Whitney & Cotton Gin
Political party that was anti-immigration
Know Nothings
This idea allowed factories to make identical pieces for the same product
Interchangeable parts
Laws denying rights to enslaved people
Slave Codes
What route did Daniel Boone make in Kentucky
Wilderness Road in Cumberland Gap, KY
Name of inventor & invention that used electrical signals to communicate long distances
Samuel F. B. Morse & Telegraph
Maine, Vermont, or New York had what in common by 1820?
Free States
People who invest money into businesses.
Capitalists
This industry drove the Northern economy
Textile mills/factories
The Erie Canal connected these two bodies of water
Lake Erie & the Hudson River
Name of inventor & of machine that helped farmers harvest wheat more efficiently
Cyrus McCormick & Mechanical Reaper
Place where mill workers lived
Boardinghouse
Movement of people from countryside to cities for jobs
Urbanisation
This crop/plant drove the American economy in the 1800s
Cotton
Land north of Missouri's southern border was for these kinds of states
Free States
Name of inventor & invention that used steam power to create the first practical steamboat
Robert Fulton & Clermont
Prominent labour organiser
Sarah Bagley
The idea that the market eventually regulates itself
The Invisible Hand of the Market
Methods for resisting slavery
Slow downs / pretending to not understand / revolting
The fastest method of long distance transportation by the 1850s
Railroads
Name of inventor & invention that made clothe-making more efficent
Elias Howe & Sewing Machine
What genre influenced the blues, gospel, jazz, and rock?
Spirituals