Inventions
Name FOUR major improvements in transportation that spurred the Industrial Revolution?
Steam engine, steam boats, canals, improved roads, railroads
What is a factory?
A large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods
What is urbanization?
The growth of cities and the migration of people to them
What is the cause of the rapid growth of urban centers along the waterways during Industrialization?
Canals being built
What did Henry Clay suggest to make the north and the south happy?
High tariffs to help the north and to help build the transportation in the south
This machine helps dirt not stick to a blade and plants seeds
Steel plow
What were the reasons for Urbanization? (2)
Moving to where the jobs are & factories offered housing
What is division of labor?
When one worker specializes in doing one task
In the Adams - Onis treaty, what state did US gain?
Florida
What group of people were seen as an inexpensive source of labor
Immigrants
What machine separate the seed from a cotton plant?
The Cotton gin
How did the cotton gin contribute to the expansion of the plantation system?
Increased the need for slave labor.
What does the term laissez faire refer to?
The idea that government should not interfere with or regulate industries or businesses
What are some negative results of industrialization? (4)
Overcrowding, pollution, Sectionalism, crime
This person built the communication device that sent instantaneous long-distance transmission of information.
Samuel Morse & telegraph
What is an assembly line?
an arrangement in which a product is moved from worker to worker, with each person performing a single task in its manufacture
This area favored manufacturing and urbanization
The North
What is Industrialization?
The process of developing machine production of goods
What compromise was intended to end the argument between the north and the south
The Missouri compromise
This person was against high tariffs and pushed for states rights.
John C Calhoun
Identical parts that can be put together to make a product
Interchangeable parts
What is mass production?
The system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items
What is free enterprise?
Private business operates in competition and is largely free of government control.
Why did the industrial revolution begin in the North?
rocky soil was not good for farming and they had plenty of rivers to power the factories
he created the factory system by stealing designs,
Samuel Slater