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What individual developed the factory system and produced cloth from start to finish in one factory?

Francis Cabbot Lowell

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What is the name of this invention and what impact did it have on life in the United States?

Steel plow; made it easier to farm

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Where did most Irish find work once they immigrated to America?

They worked on building the Erie Canal, railroad and in factories

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What inventions helped to improve the area of agriculture? (3)

steel plow, cotton gin, and mechanical reaper

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banana

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rocket

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rocket

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lifesaver

Give 25 points!

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What invention helped to make the harvesting of wheat easier?

mechanical reaper

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trap

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shark

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rocket

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lifesaver

Give 20 points!

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How did the War of 1812 contribute to the industrialization of the United States?

the war disrupted trading so Americans were forced to begin manufacturing their own goods

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What is the difference between rural and urban?

Rural refers to the farms and urban refers to the cities

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heart

Other team wins 25 points!

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seesaw

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shark

Other team loses 25 points!

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thief

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Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in the northeastern United States?

because there were a lot of water resources and coal and iron deposits

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Why did the Irish immigrate to America?

To escape the potato famine and find new economic opportunities in America

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What invention helped to make the cleaning of cotton faster and easier? Who invented it?

cotton gin, Eli Whitney

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What economic system is characterized by competition, profit motive, private property and consumer choice?

Free enterprise

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What is urbanization?

The movement of people from the farms to the cities

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The completion of what structure connected Buffalo, New York to the Hudson River?

Erie canal

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