Economics
Transportation
Industrialization
Inventions
Immigration and Geography
100
The ability of producers to sell goods to consumers without government interference.
Free Enterprise
100
A major innovation that helped connect distant places by allowing for boats to travel between places not connected by rivers or coasts.
canals
100
People moving to cities from the rural areas mostly in search of jobs.
urbanization
100
Eli Whitney is known for what two inventions?
cotton gin and interchangeable parts
100
What territory attracted lots of settlers seeking fertile land in the south?
Mississippi Territory
200
The economy of the north was based largely on what?
industrialization/factories
200
This invention made transporting goods by canals more efficient.
steamboat
200
Why were rivers and waterways so important to factories?
power
200
Samuel Slater brought machines to factories for making cotton cloth. This helped the industry known as what grow?
textiles
200
What are the Americans that opposed immigration known as?
Nativists
300
The economy of the south was based largely on what?
agriculture
300
Because movement of people was limited, most people working in factories had to live where?
cities
300
Prior to industrialization, things made at home were priced how?
higher/more expensive
300
What was the unintended consequences of the cotton gin?
increase in slave population
300
What reason did most opposing immigration give for their belief?
immigrants taking jobs from Americans
400
Those who purchase and use goods made by others.
consumers
400
What territory was acquired in order to connect the east and west by rail?
Gadsden Purchase
400
Mass production of goods in factories does what to the price of the goods?
lowers them
400
What did interchangeable parts lead to?
easier repairs of machines and mass production
400
Who sold this to the U.S. and for how much?
France for $15 Million
500
Those that make and sell goods to others.
producers
500
Where did most of the immigrants in the 1800s arrive from?
Ireland, Germany, China (any of these)
500
Industrialization created an unskilled workforce that worked for what kind of pay?
wages
500
Industrialization made the economic divides between north and south grow more obvious. This is explained by what term?
sectionalism
500
The territory highlighted here was acquired as part of what treaty?
Guadalupe Hidalgo