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The transportation link in New York, a so-called “artificial river,” facilitated the movement of goods to and from the west and helped solidify New York City’s place as the leading market city of the nation.
What is the Erie Canal?
The time frame of the Growth of Cotton Textile Manufacturing.
What is 1810 - 1840?
Called the “Great Compromiser,” this politician from Kentucky helped resolve the Missouri Crisis and the Election of 1824: _________________________________.
Who is Henry Clay?
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Who is Julisses?
The man whose inventions helped western farmers with labor shortages to partially mechanize the wheat harvest:
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
The new organization of labor where manufacturing laborers typically did not complete the whole production process, but rather they did just one step
What is Piecework?
The incident that was begun by a southern state questioning the constitutionality of the Tariff of 1828
What is the Nullification Crisis?
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What is true?
This western city developed to a population of more than 100,000 by 1850 as a result of a growing railroad network, and helped re-center the economy of the nation in the West:
What is Chicago?
In this era, new methods of travelling were introduced which allowed for advantages in covering long distances. This provided commercial activity and economic growth
What was the Transportation Revolution?
This man was secretary of state under James Monroe and was elected, despite the loss of the popular vote, in a highly contested presidential race in 1824: _________________________________.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Hint: His father was a former president.
What are the times, dates, and location of the SI Sessions?
What is:
Tuesday: 1:00pm - 2:00pm BLDG P 3.131
Wednesday: 3:00pm - 4:00pm BLDG P 3.131
Friday: 11:00am - 12:00pm ONLINE?
1)Illegally imported British textile machinery and operational secrets to America.
2) Established partnerships with Moses Brown and William Almy for a huge share of the modernizing textile industry in the Northeast.
3) As in Great Britain, the mills used child labor. Children typically worked alongside their parents in a “family system” of labor where the family sought to earn higher wages as a unit.
4) Slater created the concept of the “factory village”
Who is Samuel Slater?
This type of revolution owes to several factors such as:
Labor transformation—homebased and factory based “piecework” turned artisans and unskilled workers into wage earners
• Transportation improvements
• Commercialization-“replacement of household self-sufficiency and barter with the production of goods for a cash market”
• Industrialization-“the use of power-driven machinery to produce goods once made by hand”
What is the Market Revolution?
This political party formed during the 1830s, condemning the president whom they dubbed “King Andrew” with an allusion to the anti-monarchical parties of England and Revolutionary America: _________________________________.
What is the Whig Party?
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The gender ideology proposed that women should remain in the home sphere and men in the public, but whether a family could follow it was dictated by class
What is Separate Spheres?
This event started in Britain but it soon made its way to America with its influence on industrialization.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The event that was caused by a number of changes in banking and economic development, including the veto of the national bank charter and proliferation of unregulated state banks, along with high foreign investments and land speculation rates in the western U.S.: _________________________________.
What is the Panic of 1837?
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What is False?