Chapter 12 The North Flashcards
Goods weren’t made fast enough to keep up with people’s _______.
Needs
Prior to the _________ most people were farmers and made thing by hand.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in ________ and spread to the U.S. beginning with the ________ industry.
Great Britain
Textile
Richard Arkwright invented a ________ that could produce dozens of cotton threads at a time.
Water frame
Britain had the most powerful ______ industry.
Textile
What did all invention during the industrial revolution have in common?
Make goods faster and cheaper
________ from Great Britain memorized plans for cotton spinning machines.
Samuel Slater
Mills were built along ________ and ________ in the northeast.
Rivers
Streams
In 1790, the U.S. was near war with _______ and needed guns.
France
Eli Whitney introduced the idea of _________ that made machines easier to reassemble and replace.
Interchangeable parts
As a result of interchangeable parts, goods were produced in _________.
Mass quantities
After the War of 1812, there was a major increase in _________, because we could no longer ex-trade.
American manufacturing
Factory owners had trouble finding people to fill jobs, so they hired ________.
Entire families
No one complained about ________ because children normally worked on farms.
Child labor
Adults were paid the same amount in one day as children were in __________.
One week
Slayer provided ________ and opened general stores where workers could buy items with _______.
Housing
Credit
Hiring families for jobs was known as ___________.
Rhode Island System
How long were factory days?
12-14 hours
Factories had ________ schedules and cotton dust caused _________.
Fast-paced
Chronic cough
Workers received low wages for _________ jobs.
Dangerous
Factories cause ________ to lose their jobs.
Craftspeople
___________ cause low wages because the were willing to work for cheap.
Immigration
Skilled workers, unhappy with working conditions, formed _________ and used _______ to get what they wanted.
Trade unions
Strikes
In 1840 president __________ granted a 10 hour work day for _______ employees.
Van Buren
Federal
The 10 hour work day was followed by these states: Connecticut, _________, New Hampshire,
___________, and Pennsylvania.
Maine
Ohio
_________ and _________ increased trade and profits.
Steamboats
Steam trains
Steamboats and trains were able to move ________, _________, and _______ quickly and cheaply.
Goods
Information
People
In 1893, _________ tested the first steamboat in France.
Robert Fulton
August 9, 1807, the Clermont traveled against the current if the __________,
Hudson River
Steamboats were ideal for _________because it was easy to travel against the current.
River travel
By the 1850s, steamboats carried people and goods across the _________ ocean.
Atlantic
Increase in steamboat use led to conflict over __________.
Ownership of waters
The Supreme Court ruled in ____________ that the states did not control the waterways.
Gibbons v. Ogden
_________ demonstrated a race against a horse that ________ transportation was better.
Peter Cooper
Train
By 1840, there were ________ miles of train track.
2,800
By _____, there were 30,000 miles of track just in the east.
1860
Wagons traveled less than ___ miles per hour, but trains traveled at _____ miles per hour.
2
20
The first result of the transportation revolution was that people in the U.S. have access to ______.
Goods
Railroads provided a _______ economy and wealth was centered in the _______.
Stable
North
As a result of the transportation revolution, towns were build where?
Around train stations
______ replaced wood as a power source, leading to ________ as an industry causing an increase in demand for _______.
Coal
Mining
Steel
Deforestation occurred because there was an increase in demand for _______ and _______, and needed space for ________.
Paper
Furniture
Railroads
