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15 Cards in this Set
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New Yorkers followed the Mohawk River and the Genesse Turnpike westward to lake erie. This became know as what
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Mohawk Route
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The government built wehat road fromn Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling Virginia on the Ohio River?
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National Road
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This road was later extended across Ohio and Indiana into Illinois
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National Road or Cumberland Road
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On the frontier, people were respected more for what instead of nationality, social position or pocketbook.
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Courage, skills, and industriouness
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Pioneers lived in the land of __________. Pioneers were _______________filled with ________________
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Opportunity
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The Change from methods of of hand production to machine methods. The shift of manufacture from the home to the factory
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Industrial Revolution
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Steam replaced water power in the late 1760's with the development of a practical steam engine developed by whom?
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James Watt
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Was a skilled English textile worker, who succeeded in emigrating to the US and from memory he constructed the machine necessary to spin cotton
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Samuel Slater
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Samuel Slater built the country's first successful cotton mill where and when
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Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790
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What is Slater called?
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"Father of the American factory system"
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Was one of the first wealthy New England merchants to invest his fortunein manufacture of cotton
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Francis C. Lowell
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He constructed spinning mahcinery and a new type of power loom
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Francis C. Lowell
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Invented the cotton gin 1793
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Eli Whitney
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What did the invention of the cotton gin do to production?
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It caused the South to increase its production of cotton tremendously
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Invented the sewing machine?
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Elias Howe
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