Chapter 11
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- Eli Whitney
- invented a machine for cleaning cotton called the cotton gin
- telegraph
- made it alot easier to comunicate w/ people very far away
- What were working conditions like in Lowell mills?
- employed farm girls and working conditions weren't good. They'de work 12.5 hrs an day, some lost body parts
- mechanical reaper
- cut ripe grain, improved agriculture
- Why was New England a good place to lbuild early factories?
- Factoires need fast moving rivers, and this place had them, gave ships easy access to the ocean, willing labor force
- american system
- establish a protective tariff , establish a national bank, and improve the country's transporation system
- Samuel Slater
- built the first successful water powered mill in the USa
- factory system
- brought many workers and machines together under one roof
- Lowell mills
- textile mills in the village
- steel plow
- helped farmer plow thick soil in the west
- James Monroe
- Demoratic- Republican, won the presidency in 1816 w/ a large majority of electoral votes
- Erie canal
- created a water route between NYC and Buffalo NY - opend up Ohio VAlley and the Great LAkes
- Nat Turner
- lead the most famous Slave Rebellion in Virginia 1813, Hung when caught
- Henry Clay
- from Kentucky , was a strong nationalist, had a plan to strengthen the country to unify it's regions, American system
- sectioalism
- is a loyalty to the interests of your own regoin or section of the counrty
- cotton gin effect
- slave demand, vast move west, slave could clean 50 lbs to 1 ,
- king cotton
- slaves were mainly in the south on cotton plant. the more dense the slave pop. the cotton was maily grown there
- textile mill effect
- american industry lept forward, spun raw cotton into yarn and wove into cloth on power looms, built a new factory - Lowell
- pie chart
- 64%-white, 21.3%-owned slaves, 2.1%-(10% of these own) 20+, 43.6% didn't own slaves, african americans-36%, 33%-slaves, 3% free
- nationalism
- is a felling of pride and loyalty and protectiveness
- Missouri Compromise
- 1820 kept the balance of power in the Senate between the slaves states and free states, called for slavery to be banned parallel 36* , 30*
- Monroe Doctrine
- a policy iof the US opposition to any European interference in the Western Hemisphere, announced by President Monroe- directed to the Eurpeans
- got around the slave ban
- smuggled in the US , raised and sold slaves
- threshing machine
- separtated kernals of wheat from husks, improved agriculture
- steamboat
- made it easier and quicker to travel goods
- How were differnet US Regoins linked economically?
- different US regoins were linked by the steamboat beacsue they could transport goods to eachother
- industrial Revolution
- factory machines replaced many hand tols and many factories replaced farming as a main form of work
- Robert Fulton
- invented a steamboat that could move against a current or stream
- interchangable parts effect
- beacame standard in industires, speeded up production, repairs were easy, allowed the use of low paid worker
- Erie canal--
- hudson r. to Lake Erie
- cotton gin
- made cotton cleaning process easier and far more effiecent