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Term | Definition |
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Effects of War of 1812 | U.S. manufacturing increased due to being blocked from trading with Europe/Britain. |
Cotton Gin | Resulted in people planting more cotton, resulted in more slaves. |
Industrial Revolution Era | A time when America builds Factories. |
Free Enterprise | Economy driven by profit and competition and little government intervention. |
Women | Got jobs outside their homes in textile mills. |
Canals | Man made rivers, transportation of goods became faster, price of goods dropped, and cities grew. |
Steamboats and Railroads | Resulted in faster and more efficient transportation of goods, the prices of goods decreased. |
Telegraph | Invention used to communicate rapidly over long distances. |
Urbanization | people move from rural farm areas to cities to work in factories, city populations explode. |
Immigration | Irish immigrants came to U.S. because of potato famine, immigrants worked in factories and on Transcontinental Railroad |
2nd Great Awakening | Movement to encourage people to be more religious, resulted in people wanting social reform, to change America for the better. |
Temperance Movement | Movement to get Americans to drink less or no alcohol, women involved in this group |
Abolitionist | People who worked to end slavery, either by writing, speaking, or a conductor; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass. |
Women's Rights Movement | Seneca Falls Convention called for women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton |