Defining the Industrial Revolution
This term refers to the period in the 18th century when machines began replacing human labor in the U.S.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These grew rapidly in the North as factories were built.
What are cities?
These combined multiple steps of production under one roof.
What are factories?
This crop was the most important cash crop in the South.
What is King Cotton?
The demand for cotton increased the demand for this forced labor system.
What is slavery?
The invention of these helped speed up production in factories.
What are machines?
This transportation system connected cities, making travel and trade faster.
What are railroads?
These produced cloth from raw cotton
What are textile mills?
The economy of the South was heavily dependent on this type of labor.
What is slave labor?
Large farms in the South that grew cash crops.
What are plantations?
Industrialization led to the growth of this type of area.
What are cities?
The North developed an economy based on this type of industry.
What is manufacturing?
Many of these workers arrived from other countries to work in Northern factories.
Who are immigrants?
The Southern economy relied on this type of farming system.
What are plantations?
The South depended on this type of labor force for its agricultural economy.
What is slave labor?
The process of developing industries in a country or area.
What is Industrialization?
This man-made waterway connected New York to the Mississippi River.
What is the Erie Canal?
The availability of factory jobs led to an increase in this.
What is urbanization?
These crops in addition to cotton were also grown on Southern plantations.
What are tobacco, rice, and indigo?
This invention helped increase cotton production but also expanded slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas to cities.
What is Urbanization?
The ability to transport goods more efficiently helped increase this.
What is economic growth?
The industrial economy created many jobs in this type of production.
What is mass production?
This term refers to the trade of enslaved people among U.S. states.
What is the Domestic Slave Trade?
Plantation owners used enslaved labor to maximize this.
What is profit?