This is the source of power used for the mills in the Lowell Factory System.
What is water?
100
It was more comfortable and river barges could carry more goods than a wagon.
Why was river travel more popular than travel by road?
100
These two states developed from the compromise.
What are Missouri and Maine?
200
These allowed goods to be transported easily to markets and provided energy for factories.
What are rivers?
200
This canal was built to connect Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo on Lake Erie.
What is Erie Canal?
200
Missouri became a free state, it would upset representatives of slave and free state in the Senate
Why was the admission of Missouri to the Union controversial?
300
These machines were invented during 1700's and were made to make jobs easier.
What is The Spinning Jenny, The Water Frame, The Power Loom, and The Cotton Grin.
300
He widened a native American trail through Appalachian Mountains called "Warriors Path." He explored all the way to Kentucky.
How is Daniel Boone contributed to westward exploration in the late 1700's?
300
It was permitted slavery south of the southern boundary of Misssouri.
What did it state about the Organized Territory?
400
This type of law was invented in 1790 by Congress to protect the rights of inventers.
What is a patent law?
400
People from the same states often settled in the same areas. For example, people from Tennessee and Kentucky settled in Indiana. Michigan settlers came from New England.
What were the settlement patterns like west of the Appalachians?
500
Factories were also built along rivers to use water power to ships goods to other markets. The port areas becames centers of commerce and trade.
How did factory growth also lead to the developement of cities?
500
There were no building on the land. Everything had to be built from the ground up, so it was difficult work. There were no sewer systems and disease may have spread.
What factors probably made life in the West difficult?