Winter Wonderland
Artificial waterways built because water transportation was the cheapest way to transport goods.
A form of land transportation that was built with the assistance of land grants and allowed for cities to be built further inland and provided economic opportunities.
What are railroads?
This invention made cotton profitable by increasing the rate at which its seeds could be removed.
What was the cotton gin?
This inventor created the cotton gin, leading to profound economic increases in the Southern United States.
Who was Eli Whitney?
This president dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and caused an economic upheaval.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Facilitated upstream travel, increased transportation speeds and lowered freight costs.
What is the steamboat?
This waterway was the most profitable during the 1820s and 1830s and stretched from Buffalo to Albany.
What was the Erie Canal?
This labor production system had machines that were operated by women working for long hours in terrible conditions in New England.
What was the Lowell System?
This secretary of state promoted railroads and implemented protective tariffs to boost the economy. a. John Tyler b. Aaron Burr c. Winfield Scott D. Henry Clay
Who was Henry Clay?
This group of people utilized slave labor to run their economic efforts in the cotton industry.
Who were plantation owners?
This sped up communication between businesses, allowed information to travel more quickly, transmitted messages from a distance along a wire.
What is the telegraph?
This industry was one of the first in industrialization, concerned in manufacture of material for clothing, bags, or baskets.
What was the textile industry?
This invention made the harvesting of crops semi-automatic and much more efficient.
This inventor and painter contributed to the telegraph and its code, revolutionizing communication. a. Thomas Edison b. Alexander Graham Bell c. Nikola Tesla d. Samuel Morse
Who was Samuel Morse?
They exploited low wage labor for the economy with no concern for well-being or working hours.
Who were factory owners?
This is a system that led to the creation of the Second Bank of the United States, as well as a tariff on foreign manufactured goods to encourage the growth of domestic production.
What is the American System?
A business model where individual investors are not held personally liable for a company's losses, had protection from courts, large scale enterprise.
What is a corporation?
This invention mechanized the process of weaving fabric, leading to great increases in textile production.
What was the power loom?
This inventor created the steam railway locomotive. a. Robert Fulton b. Francis Cabot Lowell c. Richard Trevithick d. DeWitt Clinton
Who was Richard Trevithick?
This person created a labor system where women would spend long hours in textile mills in dirty conditions. a. Richard Arkwright b. Francis Cabot Lowell c. James Hargreaves d. Samuel Crompton
This movement added religion to the celebration of personal self-improvement, self-reliance, and self-determination.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
These western immigrants settled on unoccupied land without a clear legal title.
Who were squatters?
These American born workers blamed immigrants for providing cheap labor and urban crime, believed they distort existing cultural values, and opposed immigration.
Who were Nativists?
Which American politician was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal? a. DeWitt Clinton b. James Monroe c. Ted Cruz d. John Quincy Adams
Who was DeWitt Clinton?
This vice president opposed the protective tariff of 1828 which would have promoted domestic manufacturing at the time. a. Andrew Jackson b. Henry Clay c. John C. Calhoun d. James Polk
Who was John C. Calhoun?