industrial revolution

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free enterprise

Economic system when people compete for profit

sectionalism

Loyalty to a region

new markets = flow of goods that includes competition and free-enterprise

New areas that are set up to buy or sell goods.

famine

an extreme shortage of food

steamboat

boat powered by steam that transported goods

Textiles

cloths

telegraph

device for communication, transmitted morse code

steam engine

engine that is powered by steam

plantation

farm that slaves worked on

urbanization

growth of cities from a rural area

Eli Whitney

inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825)

cotton gin

machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers

cottage industry

manufacturing activity in a person's home

railroads

new way of transportation during the Industrial Revolution

Chinese immigrants

people from China coming to a new country

German immigrants

people from Germany coming into a new country

Irish immigrants

people from Ireland coming to America to escape famine

Interchangeable parts

pieces that could be assembled to most things

assembly line

product is moved on to workers in factories

industrialization

production of machines and factories

economic boom

rapid economic growth

industrial revolution

start of new inventions that greatly impacted America

Effects of the War of 1812

start of the industrial revolution

Erie Canal

waterway connecting the Hudson river with Lake Erie

canals

waterway that transports goods


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