Consequences of Expansion
What was the industry where expansion caused changes?
Textiles or Woven Cloth
What year was standardized time adopted into the US?
1883
Who were early presidential candidates chosen by?
The political party's leaders
Name a push factor involved with immigration to the US in the 1800s
Poverty, famine, and war
What year did John Deere invent the steel plow?
1837
Why wouldn't some people leave their skilled for unskilled ones?
Because they payed much less
How did the North's geography help with the growing train phenom at the time?
Flat land made it easier to lay tracks and for trains to sit on, making cargo transport faster
Who was the president that was called a "war hero of New Orleans"?
Andrew Jackson
People in the U.S that opposed immigration were called?
Nativists
What was used first to power steam boats?
Wood
Who invented the Rhode Island system?
Samuel Slater
Who invented the first paddle steam boat?
Robert Livingston and/or Robert Fulton
With the election of Andrew Jackson also came a feeling that...
What city grew in popularity in the early 1900s due to many people having bad crops and shortage of cash?
New York
Who proposed the idea of interchangeable parts in muskets?
Eli Whitney
In the Lowell System, why did women leave farms?
Because the textile work was considered cultured and made more
Name one job involved with making or operating trains.
Civil engineers, boilermakers, mechanics and steel workers
Name of the President's unofficial advisers was called what?
The Kitchen Cabinet
How many immigrants came to the US between 1840 and 1860?
Around four million
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Name one problem with the factories that women worked in?
Dim lighting, fibers throughout air, demanding work hours and dangerous machinery
Why was Baltimore worried about losing trading popularity?
Because the Erie Canal was just built.
Who proposed the Compromise Tariff of 1833?
Senator Henry Clay
Whose roles began to change in cities during the early 1900s?
Women's
In what year did America have more millionaires that all of Europe combined?
1850