Agriculture
This type of crop is typically sold for profit rather than for someone to use.
What is a cash crop?
Western pioneers often did this with each other to get whatever they needed.
What is trading?
These formed in response to industry becoming huge in the North.
What are cities?
These were the primary sources of transportation used in the western frontier?
What are horses and wagons?
This is a type of farming that requires farmers to plant to feed themselves and not sell crops for a profit.
What is subsistence farming?
This geographical feature made it extremely easy to transport goods and people in the North but also was able to power factories in the North.
What are fast moving rivers?
The North's labor force was primarily made up of these people.
Who are immigrants?
This canal was constructed to connect the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.
What is the Erie Canal?
These three crops were the three biggest cash crops for the South.
What is cotton, tobacco, and sugar?
This good was often traded in the West and can still be found on Mackinac Island.
What is fur?
This is what western pioneers did when they needed something done.
What is doing it themselves?
This road was constructed to connect the West to the Northeast.
What is the National Road?
Eli Whitney invented this invention in 1794. It had the effect of drastically raising the demand for slaves in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
These were young girls typically 15-35 who worked in textile mills in Massachusetts.
Who were the Lowell Mill Girls?
Between 1815-1860 approximately this many immigrants came to the United States.
What is 5 million?
This person invented the steamboat which revolutionized transportation in the South.
Who was Robert Fulton?
This group of western pioneers really struggled to reuse land for multiple harvests.
Who were the first group of western settlers?
This system of work allowed merchants to essentially give rural households materials and then they would create the product.
What is the putting out system?
By this year about 1 in 3 Southerners were a slave.
What is 1860?
This New York governor was the largest donor for the construction of a canal that aimed to connect the Great Lakes and the Hudson River.
Who was DeWitt Clinton?