Industrial Revolution
How would you define the Industrial Revolution?
What is a period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry
Industrialization led to increased immigration and the overpopulation of cities in this region of the United States.
What is the North Region?
What area of the US was part of the Louisiana Purchase?
The Central (Middle Part) from North to South
It is a city, high population, tall buildings, has a lot of traffic, subways and trains.
What is urban?
This is a fundamental concept within economics and is primarily used to describe the price and availability of commodities.
What is Supply and Demand?
During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?
What is people migrated from rural areas to urban areas
The invention of the cotton gin allowed southern planters to increase cotton production, resulting in a greater demand for enslaved people as labor in this region.
What is the Southern Region?
During the their expedition, the Physical Geography Lewis and Clark observed on the Great Plains is this.
What is grassland?
It is far from the city, it is country, not many people, has farms and crops.
What is a rural area?
Stores that have excess supply do this.
What is lower the price/have a sale or give discounts?
Describes why factory owners began to use machines and unskilled labor to make manufactured goods?
What is they wanted to be able to increase the supply of manufactured goods.
He invented the cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney.
These two gentlemen and their team explored the Louisiana Purchase Territory.
Who is Lewis and Clark.
It is near a city, smaller community, has many houses with larger yards.
What is the Suburban area?
A person stays in one place and does their part as a product comes by and when they do their part, the product keeps going to the next person
What is an assembly line?
The Industrial Revolution was based on this new technology:
What is the Steam Engine
He invented a steam engine in 1769?
Who is James Watt.
She helped Lewis & Clark with translations while they were on their expedition.
Who is Sacagawea?
Some geographical features that influence where people decide to live.
Rivers and lakes (water access), climate, soil, coast, flatlands, vegetation.
The inventions of the telegraph, post office, radio, television, telephone and computer increased this for society.
What is communication?
Where did the Industrial Revolution 1st start?
What is Britain
National roads, canals and steamboats contributed to a mass movement to this part of the US region
What is the West Region?
He purchased the Louisiana Territory?
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?
What is farming, a farmer?
He started a successful car company and perfected the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?