Inventions + Innovations Part 1
Location of the 1st successful water-powered textile mill.
Where is Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
The 1st successful steamboat developed by Robert Fulton traveled up this New York river.
What is the Hudson?
Location of the 1st completely mechanized textile mill in Massachusetts.
Where is Lowell, Massachusetts?
In the Northern cities, people lived in these crowded apartments with poor standards of sanitation, safety and comfort.
What are tenements?
James Monroe's 2 terms were pretty optimistic and are known by this phrase.
What is "The Era of Good Feelings"?
British immigrant who brought the designs from the Industrial Revolution to the United States (in his head).
Who is Samuel Slater?
This 363-mile waterway linked the Atlantic coast with the Great Lakes.
What is the Erie Canal?
System in which each worker performs just 1 part of an entire production process.
What is specialization?
Because of poor wages and long hours, factory workers resorted to these to try to improve conditions.
What are strikes?
While John Marshall was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the decisions of the court made clear that this was "the supreme law of the land."
What is the Constitution?
Invention by Eli Whitney that allowed for standardization in the assembly of weapons.
What are interchangeable parts?
New form of transportation, more efficient than canals; the 1st was the Baltimore and Ohio.
What are railroads?
Money that a business spends in hopes of future gain.
What is investment capital?
Band of states stretching from South Carolina to Texas.
What is the cotton belt?
The Supreme Court case Gibbons vs. Ogden was about states vs. federal rights and had to do with this form of transportation.
What are steamboats?
This invention increased the demand for slave labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, work was called this.
What is domestic?
Greatly benefitting farming in the Old Northwest, he invented the steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
African American preacher who led a violent uprising in Virginia; he believed he was inspired by God.
Who was Nat Turner?
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Term used for the 1st roads which were bumpy + uncomfortable.
What are "corduroy roads"?
An increase of these led to an increase in literacy.
What are post offices?
Cincinnati was known for its slaughterhouses and manufacturing of food from this livestock.
What are pigs?
Preacher in South Carolina, he planned the most ambitious slave revolt in U.S. history but was betrayed by a slave.
Who was Denmark Vesey?
It warned European powers not to interfere with the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?