Inventions
A machine the separated Cotton from seeds.
What was the Cotton Gin
Known as the Father of the American Industrial Revolution.
Who is Samuel Slater
The economic boom along the Erie Canal encouraged people to move in this direction and expand the country.
What is west or westward
Reduced the travel time up the length of the Mississippi river from 4 months to 20 days.
Steamboat
Young women who worked in factories in Massachusetts during the industrial revolution.
Lowell Girls
How did the steamboat improve transatlantic travel.
Enabled faster, more reliable journeys regardless of wind conditions.
Created the worlds first Textile Mill
Who is Francis Lowell
Economically the canal helped farmers by:
Allowing them to sell their crops and buy manufactured goods.
Railroads
What was the road system called that improved travel across the United States.
National Road or Turnpike
Allowed for mass production of goods by enabling standardized, identical components to be easily assembled, significantly increasing efficiency, lowering costs, and enabling the use of less skilled labor.
What was interchangeable parts.
Created the Cotton Gin
Who was Eli Whitney
The Erie canal allowed for economic expansion by opening up a new trade route from northern cities to:
The Mississippi River Valley
Major impact of the Factory System
Improved speed and volume of the production of goods.
Name of the town that was renamed for the construction project that occurred their allowing ships to be raised 70 feet over the Niagara Plateau.
Lockport
This allowed shipping to travel over hilly regions of the countryside.
What is a a lock
Created a system that allowed messages to be transmitted over the telegraph
Who was Samuel Morse
The Erie canal dropped the cost of shipping between which two parts of the United States
Northeast and the Midwest
Steam Engine
Name for the code that was transmitted along telegraph lines to improve communication instantaneously across the United States.
Morse Code
This revolutionized communication, enabling near-instantaneous transmission of information across vast distances
NY Governor who helped implement the creation of the Erie Canal
Dewitt Clinton
Irish
Workers relocating to construct projects further west allowed exposed their ideas, thought or traditions to other people along the route. This is known as:
Cultural diffusion or the spread of culture
The Erie Canal connected which two bodies of water.
Hudson River in Albany, NY and the Great Lakes in Buffalo, NY