industrial revolution
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
