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What is the difference between rural and urban?
Rural refers to the farms and urban refers to the cities
What is the name of this invention and what impact did it have on life in the United States?
Mechanical reaper; made it easier to grow wheat
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
Where did most Irish find work once they immigrated to America?
They worked on building the Erie Canal, railroad and in factories
Why did the Irish immigrate to America?
To escape the potato famine and find new economic opportunities in America
How did this invention impact life in the United States?
It made the cleaning of cotton more efficient but also increased slavery
What impact did this invention have on life in the United States?
It made the transportation of goods and people more efficient
An abundance of labor, the availability of capital, and new transportation systems all were factors that contributed to what event?
the industrialization of the United States
What are textiles?
cloth
What was a negative effect of the cotton gin?
It increased slavery
What invention made steam power available for mechanical purposes?
steam engine
What invention allowed for several threads to be spun at once thus making it more efficient to make cloth?
spinning jenny
Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel F. B. Morse
What invention helped to improve communication over long distances?
Telegraph
What inventions helped to improve the area of agriculture? (3)
steel plow, cotton gin, and mechanical reaper
How did interchangeable parts impact industrialization?
it allowed for the mass production of goods (made it faster, easier and cheaper)
What economic system is characterized by competition, profit motive, private property and consumer choice?
Free enterprise
What economic system helped the United States to industrialize?
Free enterprise
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
What were some of the effects of increased urbanization in the cities as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
increased crime, overcrowding, poverty, pollution, spread of disease
What individual developed the factory system and produced cloth from start to finish in one factory?
Francis Cabbot Lowell
What individual memorized the way that the British built their spinning machines and then immigrated to America and built a factory?
Samuel Slater
Who were the typical workers in the factories?
women and children
What is urbanization?
The movement of people from the farms to the cities
The completion of what structure connected Buffalo, New York to the Hudson River?
Erie canal
What impact did the steamboat have?
It made it easier to travel upstream and improved the shipping of goods (more efficient)
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
What invention helped to make the harvesting of wheat easier?
mechanical reaper
What idea did Eli Whitney develop which allowed for the mass production of identical machine made parts?
interchangeable parts
What invention helped to make the cleaning of cotton faster and easier? Who invented it?
cotton gin, Eli Whitney
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in the northeastern United States?
because there were a lot of water resources and coal and iron deposits
In what part of the United States did the Industrial Revolution begin?
Northeast
What is the name of the event during which the invention of machines changed the way that manufactured goods were produced?
Industrial Revolution
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