Vocabulary
"free to do," the idea that economies operate best when directed by private individuals and businesses with minimal government intervention.
Free Enterprise
Bonus Points
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This machine used wire teeth to pull the seeds out of the cotton and sped up the cleaning process tremendously.
Cotton Gin
A storage device that allowed people to keep food fresher for longer.
A machine that allowed people to make clothes inside their own home.
Ice Box
Sowing Machine
Examples of push factors (things that cause people to want to leave a country)
as poverty, war, religious persecution, or lack of food
a period of change for the economy and society of much of the world where many countries transitioned from primarily agricultural societies, in which most goods were handmade, to societies in which machines were used to manufacture goods.
Industrial Revolution
Which city was the first city in the United States designed around the factory system?
Lowell, Massachussetts
Whitney designed tools that made pieces identical so that they could be replaced, which means a piece from one gun would fit into any of the other guns. No longer did a worker make an entire gun. Instead, each worker or team specialized in making a specific piece
Interchangeable Parts
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Examples of pull factors (things which attract people to a particular country)
higher standards of living, and better job and educational opportunities
fabric that was woven, but today it refers to many different kinds of fabrics and cloths.
Textiles
What was the first industry that embraced using machines to produce products?
Textile industry (cloth)
New forms of transportation that increased the ability and speed of transporting goods and people across the country.
Steamboats, Canals, and Railroads
What were some of the consequences of Industrialization?
Environmental damage (pollution)
This group of immigrants had more money and options when they came to the United States. Many of them settled in the Midwest region, including some midwestern cities like chicago.
German Immigrants
the movement of people from rural areas, usually called towns, to urban areas, which are called cities
Urbanizatoin
What were the positives created by the new life offered by the textile mills?
Women received opportunities to be financially independent.
This device sent electrical signals over wires. The signals could travel almost immediately to any location also possessing wires. This allowed for quick communication between distant locations.
Telegraph
What was the result of the cotton gin?
The number of enslaved people increased to meet the needs of the South’s cotton production, rising to more than 3.2 million in 1850.
These immigrants were usually poor and had few skills. Many men took jobs building new forms of transportation, such as canals and railroads. Many women worked as servants in the homes of the wealthy and middle class. Although they had to take the lowest paying and most dangerous jobs, many felt they were better off than if they were in their home country, where they might starve.
Irish Immigrants
the act of coming to a new country from one’s home country to live permanently
Immigration
What were the negatives created by the new life offered by the textile mills?
The working hours were long and 6 days a week. It was an unhealthy environment. They pay was lowered at different times.
This was pulled by horses and chopped down grain automatically. Itcould cut about as much grain in a few hours as two or three men could cut by hand in a day.
This made it much easier for farmers on the prairies and plains to plow their soil, and Deere became very successful selling his plows.
The Reaper
The Steel Plow
This party began as a secret, anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant organization. It earned its name because members were trained to say “I know nothing” when asked about their organization. The party wanted to stop foreign-born people from holding public office and to extend the time.
The American Party (the Know-nothing party)
This group discrimination and danger in the American South during the early 1800s. Most Southern states had laws discriminating against them. By 1859, Arkansas had gone so far as to pass a law requiring the removal of any of them who had been freed from within its borders.
African-American Migrants