INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
What region did the Industrial Revolution begin in?
New England
What was the main economic activity in the U.S. in the early 1800s?
Agriculture
What type of road charged tolls for travel?
Turnpikes
What name describes the time of national pride after the War of 1812?
Era of Good Feelings
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What natural feature provided power for early factories?
Rivers and streams (waterpower)
What crop grew rapidly in the South?
Cotton
What new invention made river travel faster and cheaper?
Steamboats
Who created the American System?
Henry Clay
What term means an official count of the population?
Census
What system allowed parts to be easily replaced in machines?
Interchangeable parts
What invention increased cotton production?
Cotton gin
What major canal connected New York City to the Great Lakes?
Erie Canal
What law balanced free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state?
Missouri Compromise
What group of female mill workers worked in factories?
Lowell girls
What is the economic system where people invest money to make a profit?
Capitalism / Free enterprise
As cotton production increased, what also increased?
Slavery / Enslaved labor
What road connected Ohio to the East?
National Road
What treaty gave Florida to the United States?
Adams-Onís Treaty
Who designed the first successful steamboat (Clermont)?
Robert Fulton
What system moved workers into large buildings to make goods by machine?
Factory system
What two crops were major exports north of the Ohio River?
Pork and wheat
Why were canals built even where natural rivers did not exist?
To improve transportation and trade
What policy warned Europe to stay out of the Americas?
Monroe Doctrine
Who first brought British factory technology to the U.S.?
Samuel Slater