APUSH 4.2 Flashcards
What developments precipitated in profound changes in US settlement patterns, regional idenites, gender, and family structures, political power, and distributuion of consumer goods?
technology in agriculture and commerce
A global market and communications revolution, influence by technilogical innovations led to what?
dramatic shifts in nature of agriculture and manufactoring
What technilogical innovations increased efficenicy and extended markets?
Textile machines Steam engines Interchangable parts Canals Railroads Telegraph
What did textile machines do?
made production faster (Spinning Jenny)
What did steam engines do?
allowed boats to go against the current
What did interchangable parts do?
increased production (Eli Whitney)
What did canals do?
shipped goods further (Erie Canal)
What happened to railroads?
increased drastically
What did telegraph do?
information spread more rapidly
Who was the father of the factory system?
Samuel Slater
What did more and more Americans shift from?
Subsistence farming to producing goods
What did entrepreneurs focus on?
financing
What was the name of the factory system in MA where daughters worked in factories in 8 hour shifts and lived in houses and dormatories?
Lowell system
Regional economic specialization, especially the demands of cultivationg southern cotton, shaped what?
settlement patterns
the national ad international economy
What were the impacts of cotton?
Raw material used in textile production in the northeast
Economic ties incresed (specialization for each region)
Trade with European countries (Britain France) shaped international economy
The internal slave trade increased as demands for slaves increased
Did unified national economy ever fully come to fruition?
no
Who was linked together more than with the south?
North and middle
What was Henry Clay’s 3 parts?
1) Internal Improvemnts - road, canals, etc
2) Tariffs (1816) goal was use to fund internal improvements
3) Bank of US
How did the American system have its eritics?
inter v. intra
state trade
Who vetoed the Maysville Road
Andrew Jackson