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Industrial Revolution Review
Question | Answer |
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What are 3 factors that contributed to the industrialization of the United States | -Embargo Act -Transportation -War Of 1812 |
What is the Free Enterprise System? | It is where you can own a business and the government will just observe, and make sure that you do not cut any corners |
National road development by the US Government was intended to promote ______ | Transportation |
Soil exhaustion is an environmental consequence of what activity in the south? | Farming |
Did the demand for slaves increase or decrease due to the invention of the cotton gin? | Slavery more than doubled because of the cotton gin |
How did the development of factories encourage urbanization? | Allowed people to do something other than farm |
Why did rural populations decrease during the industrial revolution? | More people wanted to work in the factories up north rater than farming all day in the south |
How did technological innovation affect the production of manufactured goods? | It allowed families to buy clothes rather than making the clothes themselves (cotton gin) |
Due to the plantation system, what crop did the South produce the most of in textile mills? | Cotton |
Describe the economy in the West. What did the region contribute to the US economy? | Allowed a railroad to go across the united states |
What contribution did immigrants make during the Industrial Revolution? | The Chinese came and built the west side of the railroad, along the coast of California |
What pull factor encouraged Chinese immigrants to move to the United States? | Gold and Economic Boom |
In the early 1850's, Chinese immigrants were seeking ________ in the west | Riches/ Gold |
What was the main push factor for the Irish immigrants? | The potato famine |
How did cities change during the Industrial Revolution? | The numbers of factories increased as well as the number of people in the area |
What group worked as cloth weavers in New England textile mills? | The Lowell Girls |
What religious group was originally against slavery during the colonial era? | Quakers |