Industrial Revolution
This period marked the change from handmade goods to machine manufacturing.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This invention made it faster to remove seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
These identical pieces could be used to build or repair products easily.
What are interchangeable parts?
In free enterprise, prices are controlled by these two economic forces.
What are supply and demand?
The rapid growth of cities during the Industrial Revolution is called this.
What is urbanization?
These cloth products were among the first items mass-produced in factories.
What are textiles?
The cotton gin caused farmers in this region to grow much more cotton.
What is the South?
This factory method allowed products to be made faster using interchangeable parts.
What is the assembly line?
This economic system allows people to buy and sell goods with little government involvement.
What is free enterprise?
This canal connected Lake Erie to New York City and increased trade.
What is the Erie Canal?
This region became an early industrial center because rivers powered factories.
What is New England?
Because cotton production increased, the demand for this labor system increased.
What is enslaved labor (slavery)?
Mass production caused the cost of goods to do this.
What is decrease?
These individuals start businesses and receive profits.
Who are entrepreneurs?
This invention allowed people to send messages quickly over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
This war increased American manufacturing because imports from Britain decreased.
What is the War of 1812?
Large farms that relied on enslaved labor to grow crops were called this.
What are plantations?
When goods became cheaper, more of these people could buy them.
Who are consumers?
Competition between businesses usually improves these two things for customers.
What are price and quality?
People who believed immigrants threatened jobs and culture held these beliefs.
What is nativism?
Many young women in New England factories worked doing this job with fabric.
What is weaving in textile mills?
The cotton gin indirectly strengthened this economic system in the South
What is the plantation economy?
Interchangeable parts made factories more efficient and allowed this type of production
What is mass production?
In a free enterprise system, the government generally plays this type of role in business.
What is limited involvement?
A major food shortage in Ireland that pushed many immigrants to America.
What is the potato famine?