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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industrial Revolution explain it | The Industrial Revolution was when Americans used to live on farms and made goods by hand. In the 1700s Great Britain started making stuff by machines that were powered by rivers So people started to move from farms to cities to have a new lifestyle. |
| Why did these industrial revoluton start in New England | Because they had a good water source to power the machines, they had ports for ships, and bad soil to farm with. |
| agriculture | It affected the industry in the north by providing a massive supply of raw materials particularly cotton during the Industrial Revolution. |
| The significance of the Erie Canal | The significance of the Erie Canal was that people built well if that's not nice off of it from Buffalo New York so they could trade things and then they could take Steamboats back up the stream so people didn't have to pull it. |
| technology | It was the introduction of new machinery that took less labor from people, steam power, and manufacturing processes |
| corporations describe the concept | A corporation is a legal business and I can have many owners of the business and it can raise large amounts of money by selling your inventions to people legally. |
| Why do cities develop along rivers? | They develop along Rivers because they need water power to power their water bills so they can make their machines and technology work. |
| capitalism | It's when people in businesses own property and they decide how to use it. |
| census | The census was the official count of the population of America taken in 1790. |
| What are the geographic features of the North East that help advance technology and transportation? | The features are rivers that move the downstream direction so you don't need steamboats to get up |
| Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin | Eli Whitney was one of the first people to create technology and machines to help make the process go faster. Eli Whitney created interchangeable parts which is where you can take smaller pieces of the main Item and replace it instead of throwing out the |
| Daniel Boone | Daniel Boone was an Explorer of the West and he began by exploring a Native American Trail that crossed the Appalachian Mountains with the help of his 30 workers they formed a Trail Road known as the Wilderness Road. |
| Nationalism describe the concept | Nationalism is a strong feeling of Pride to their country |
| explain how it was an improvement the cotton gin | It was an improvement because it made a lot of products a lot faster and it was more efficient. |
| interchangeable parts | Eli Whitney changed manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution by introducing interchangeable Parts, which were identical pieces to the main item. The machine made components |
| turnpikes | A turnpike is the road that has tolls, where the traveler has to pay. Their payments help with the cost of making the road. |
| Henry Clay and the American System who was he? | Henry Clay what's the leader of the House of Representatives from Kentucky who proposed the American System that could be easily substituted from one to another. |
| what is the purpose/benefits of the American system | He helped the economy in each section of the country and increased the power of the federal government. |
| patent | A patent is a law to protect the rights of inventors. A patent gives an inventor legal rights to make money and to sell their invention for a period of time. |
| National Road | The concept for the National Road originally was intended to connect Ohio with Eastern States |
| Second Bank of U.S. Purpose | The purpose was to make better Financial decisions where they made money and distributed money to businesses and the result American businesses grew. |
| fate of the national road | |
| Samuel Slater | Samuel Slater was a guy who brought cotton threading machines from Britain to the United States in the 1790s to make money. |
| Problems with travel What were they? | The problems with travel were that it was hard to go against the river current and the river often only flowed north to south not east to west. |
| sectionalism desdcribe the concept | It was a difference in the goals and the interests of different parts of the country and such differences had existed since the Colonial times but now it seems like they were growing sharper. |
| Francis Cabot Lowell & the Factory System | Lowlle created Boston manufacturing company It is a place where cotton is turned into fabric and made into suits and dresses for people. A change in manufacturing because it made it so much easier for people to get it done quickly and it also got them jo |
| Robert Fulton & the Steamship Who is he/ what did he do? | Robert Fulton notice that it was difficult to travel against the river current so in the results he made a steamship called the Clearmont Steamship |
| How did the steamship change things? | The steamship could travel upstream and make 150 mile trips and it improved river transportation and shipping became cheaper and faster and the cities grew. |
| interstate commerce describe it/how it works | It is a trade or transportation or of goods and services across the states. |
| capital | The capital is when the people and not the government control buildings, land, machines, money, and other items used to create wealth. |
| canals | It was an artificial waterway that goes across the state. They changed things because they make it easier to get to different places. |
| monopoly Define | Monopoly is control of an industry. If you're a steamship operator and you run the ships between New York and New Jersey there's a New York law that no other operator could run Steamboats on the same route. |
| free enterprise system | Free Enterprise is a term to describe the American economic system. People are free to work wherever they wish and to buy and sell and produce whatever they want. |
| locks | Locks are separate compartments of the Erie Canal where workers can raise and lower boats up and down hills and they can raise or lower the water level. |
| Missouri Compromise What did it say? | The Missouri Compromise said that Missouri would be admitted as the slave state but Maine would be admitted as as a free state |
| Purpose of the Missouri Compromise | The result was the balance of slavery was unchanged; it was 12 free states and 12 slave states. |
| Adams-Onis Treaty What did it decide? | The treaty was signed giving Florida to the United States in Spain ceded their territory helping extend the United States. |
| Monroe Doctrine What did it decide? | Is the salad that the Europeans powers could no longer set up Colonies in North or South America. |
| Monroe Doctrine Purpose | It was to prevent Spain from gaining influence again in the United States so President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine |
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