Social Studies #3
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- New Yorkers followed the Mohawk River and the Genesse Turnpike westward to lake erie. This became know as what
- Mohawk Route
- The government built wehat road fromn Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling Virginia on the Ohio River?
- National Road
- This road was later extended across Ohio and Indiana into Illinois
- National Road or Cumberland Road
- On the frontier, people were respected more for what instead of nationality, social position or pocketbook.
- Courage, skills, and industriouness
- Pioneers lived in the land of __________. Pioneers were _______________filled with ________________
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Opportunity
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Hope for the future - The Change from methods of of hand production to machine methods. The shift of manufacture from the home to the factory
- Industrial Revolution
- Steam replaced water power in the late 1760's with the development of a practical steam engine developed by whom?
- James Watt
- Was a skilled English textile worker, who succeeded in emigrating to the US and from memory he constructed the machine necessary to spin cotton
- Samuel Slater
- Samuel Slater built the country's first successful cotton mill where and when
- Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1790
- What is Slater called?
- "Father of the American factory system"
- Was one of the first wealthy New England merchants to invest his fortunein manufacture of cotton
- Francis C. Lowell
- He constructed spinning mahcinery and a new type of power loom
- Francis C. Lowell
- Invented the cotton gin 1793
- Eli Whitney
- What did the invention of the cotton gin do to production?
- It caused the South to increase its production of cotton tremendously
- Invented the sewing machine?
- Elias Howe