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21 Cards in this Set
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What are the productive resources, often called the factors of production |
Land Labor Capital |
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What is the first factor, land ? What were natural resources useful for? |
The land itself and all natural resources in the land
Industrial production |
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What is the second term , labor? What was r needed for? |
Large number of workers Needed to turn raw ammeter oaks into good |
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What is the third factor, capital? What is it used in/ for? |
Equipment (buildings, machinery, tools) Used in production
Money for investment Used to finance industrial growth |
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Between 1800-1850 many construction crews built thousands of miles of roads and canals. What did the canals open?how? What's an example of a canal |
Opened new shipping routes by connecting many lakes and rivers
Erie Canal |
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Who invented and demonstrated an reliable steamboat in 1807? What did it do better? Why did |
Robert Fulton Carried goods and passengers more cheaply and quickly |
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Why did canal builders begin to to widen and deepen canals? |
To accommodate steamboats |
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What also helped to speed the flow of goods |
The growth of railroads |
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Ships also improved What are clipper ships? How did they effect sailing? How did they et their name? |
Improved ships with sleek hills and tall sails
Cut trip from NY to Great Britain in half
Clipped time form long journeys |
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Happy we're early trains pulled? |
By horses rather than locomotive |
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What was the first steam powered locomotive in 1830? Who built it? Describe its success/ failure |
"Tom Thumb" Peter cooper Engine failed in a race |
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By 1860, where was most of the U.S.' 31,000 miles of rail track located? By 1860, what did s network of railroad track Unite? |
Mostly In the north and Midwest
United Midwest to the east |
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How were goods carried before canals and railways
How did the development of railways and canals effect the travel of goods and what were manufacturers able to do because of this ? |
Carried down the Mississippi r and then to LA to be shipped
Goods traveled faster and cheaper Able to offer goods at lower prices |
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How were trains beneficial? |
Cheaper and faster travel |
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What is the telegraph? Who invented it? |
An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages
Samuel morse (1844) |
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Describe how Samuel morse successfully demonstrated his telegraph What did he use to transmit his message |
Sent someone a message to Baltimore form DC instantly
Morse code |
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What is morse code |
A series of dots and dashes representing the letters of the alphabet |
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How did a couple of revolutionary inventions of the 1830s effect farming |
Changed farming methods and encouraged cultivation of larger areas out West |
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What did John Deere invent in 1837 How did it effect farming? |
Steel tipped plow Cut through hard packed sod |
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What did Cyrus McCormick invent How did it effect farming |
Invented mechanical reaper which made him rich
Sped up harvesting of wheat which cause framers to plant more making wheat become more profitable |
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Why did the north turn away from farming? What did it turn to? |
Difficult making a living farming Rocky soil
Industry(factories) |
