Industrialization
What is the cotton gin? AND Who invented it?
A machine that removed seed from cotton fiber invented by Eli Whitney
What is interchangeable parts? Inventor?
A piece of machine or device that can be replaced by another identical part - factories made same parts to replace broken part. Inventor Eli Whitney
What is Industrial Revolution?
transformed economies based on agriculture and handicrafts into economies based on large-scale industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the factory system.
Why is 1803 important
Jefferson bought Louisiana from Napoleon for 15 million.
Samuel Slater and Francis Lowell are important because?
They invented the Factory system
What is Bessemer Process?
Bessemer is the person who invented the making of steel. Its is the process to make steel during the Industrial revolution.
What is free enterprise?
A type of economy in which people are free to buy, sell and produce whatever they wants. The government has little or no interference.
What does trade unions mean in history?
Groups of workers with the same trade or skills joined to get better working conditions.
When did we gain Florida
Adam-Onis Treaty of 1819
Who are the 49ers?
Immigrants and pioneers who came searching for Gold in California
What is a steel plow? AND who invented it?
What are Canals?
An artificial waterway made by man. (it is not god-made or natural landscape)
What does Slave code mean in history?
rule focusing on behavior and punishment of enslave people laws in southern State that controlled enslave people
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848?
We gain the Mexican Cession when we won the Mexican-American War.
When the Colonist 1st gain America, what is their border to the West?
Mississippi River
What is a telegraph? AND Who invented it?
A device that used electric signals to send messages invented by Samuel Morse. (Morse Code)
How were machines 1st powered?
Water powered
what does underground railroad mean in history?
A system of cooperation to aid and house enslave people who had escaped ; network of escaped routes for slave from the South to North
What Independent country did we gain in 1845?
Texas
Explain Sectionalism?
North was Industrialized-(Daniel Webster-educated wealth).
South was plantation system-(John C Calhoun-State Rights)
West had cattle, mines-(Henry Clay-American System)
What is a Capitalist Society?
Using our money (capital) to make more money
What is Famine?
An extreme shortage of food
What is the American System?
Henry Clay's idea that the taxes collected should be used to benefit the West with roads, canals, railroads.
What does an Europe immigrant faced in Northern urbanized cities?
In the cities, immigrants were faced with overcrowding, inadequate water facilities, poor sanitation, and disease.
What is the difference between Urban and Rural societies?
Urban is modernized cities with factories, skyscraper and apartment buildings.
Rural is countryside farm living