American Revolutions Flashcards
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
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- Railroad building boom
- steam power over land travel
- Became the main way of transporting goods and people until cars
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Erie Canal
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- connected Albany to Buffalo
- farmers could take their goods to the canal to sell/trade
- people West New York sent grain through Great Lakes to canal
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McCormick’s Reeper
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- Cuts six times as much grain
- commercial production of grain in US
- big deal for the north!
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Industrial
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- Manufacturing of textiles done in factories, used to be done by hand
- being made by factory became the US way of doing things
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Telegraph
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- People communicate easier and faster than before
- helps make an integrated economy where people are more informed
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Nativism
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- Wanted to keep the immigrants out
- American party: political party against immigrants
