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Most mills were located in this region of the United States |
Northeast |
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The first breakthroughs of the industrial revolution took place in this industry |
Textile |
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The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods is known as this |
Mass production |
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This period Of rapid growth introduced machines in manufacturing and production |
Industrial revolution |
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These parts are made from pieces that are exactly the same |
Interchangeable |
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The industrial revolution began first in this country |
Great Britain |
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This event helped American manufacturing become less dependent on foreign goods |
War of 1812 |
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This American inventor promised to produce 10000 muskets in two years |
Eli Whitney |
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The skilled British merchant bought his knowledge of cloth producing machines to the United States |
Samuel Slater |
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Because new machines were too large to fit in a person's home and needed a power source these were built along streams |
Mills |
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Workers created missions to do what |
Improve trade unions |
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What system was a strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks |
The Rhode island system |
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Most Mill owners in the United States had what |
Little problems finding workers |
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The Lowell system was to hire what |
Unmarried women from local farms |
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Who founded the Lowell female labor reform association and played a large role in American labor movement |
Sarah Bagley |
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This was a period Of rapid growth in the speed convenience of travel |
Transportation revolution |
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Invented the steamboat |
Robert Fulton |
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Because of its location, this city became an important hub for transportation in the United States |
Chicago |
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The supreme Court case regarding interstate commerce reinforce the federal government's power over the states |
Gibson versus Ogden |
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Companies in this industry soon became some of the most powerful businesses in the United States |
Railroad |
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This replaced wood as main source of power for locomotives |
Coal |
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This invention made River travel faster |
Steamboat |
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In 1830, he built a small locomotive called the Tom thumb |
Peter Cooper |
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This is used to make the rails that trains ride on |
Steel |
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This cutting down and removal of trees is the definition of this term |
Deforestation |
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Who invented the mechanical reaper |
Cyrus mcCormick |
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How were prices of goods affected by mass production |
They lowered |
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Dots and dashes are used to stand for each letter of the alphabet and what system |
Morse code |
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What device did Isaac Singer help to improve |
Sewing machine |
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What device could send information over wires across great distances |
Telegraph |
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After the American revolution prices for major Southerners crops did what |
Fell |
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Growing what was very difficult |
Cotton |
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Who invented the cotton gin |
Eli Whitney |
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Who was the region that grew most of the country's cotton crop |
The South |
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Farmers who owned more than 20 slaves were known as what |
Planters |
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The growing demand for slaves led to an increase in the domestic what |
Slave trade |
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The goal of this was to increase crop production |
Agricultural science |
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He sows other successful food crops included rice sweet potatoes wheat and what |
Sugar cane |
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Productionn of what was very time-consuming because the leaves had to be cured and dried |
Tobacco |
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Joseph R Anderson became the owner of what |
Iredegar iron works |
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What society was centered around agriculture |
Southern society |
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In the early 1800s, how many white southern families owned slaves |
1/3 |
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Yeomen we're owners of what |
Small plantations and very few slaves |
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Who use religion to justify the institution of slavery |
Wealthy white Southerners |
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By 1860 how many free African Americans lived in the south |
More than half |
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What system in the south produced harsh living conditions |
Slave system |
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The majority of slaves worked where |
In the fields |
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Supervisors, who sometimes slaves themselves made sure slaves follow directions were known as what |
Drivers |
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Slaves working inside where had better food and clothing than those in the field |
These planters home |
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Where did slaves sometimes work as skilled laborers such as black Smiths and Carpenters |
On larger plantations |
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Slaveholders viewed slaves as what |
Property |
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What determines whether families would be kept together or separated |
Slave auctions |
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The most important aspect of slave communication was what |
Family |
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Bypassing down family histories, and African customs, enslave parents in sure that their children will never forget what |
Their heritage |
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Led by a slave from Virginia, the most violent slave revolt in the United States occurred in 1831 and is known as what |
Nat Turner's rebellion |