Chapter 7:Section 2- Chapter 8:Section 1 Flashcards
patent
A license from the government giving him the sole right to make use and sell an invention for a period of time
interchangeable parts
all parts needed to make a product that is made to an exact standard
industrial revolution
an effort to increase production by using machines rather than the power of humans and animals
James Watt
development of the first practical Steam engine
Samuel Slater
father of the American factory system
hundreds of ____ ____arose, mostly in PA, and NY, and New England
textile mills
______ increase the amount of cotton that farmers could produce
The Cotton Gin
trans-appalacia
The region west of the Appalachian Mountains
Daniel Boone
Transylvania company hired him
A group of men to cut the wilderness trail to the ____ ____. It became the main route to trans- Appalachia for countless families.
Cumberland gap
Cumberland gap
Low spot in the appalachia in southwestern VA main road to trans appalachia
manifest destiny
obvious are undeniable fate
Mountain Me
White settlers to begin trading with the Native Americans
The trip mustard was often difficult and expensive and pioneers encountered hardships such as ____ on their travels
disease
many _____ settled in ___ ___ ___and other towns in what became ____ territory
mormons
Salt Lake City
Utah
____ provided the countries main transportation
rivers
Robert Fulton
invented the development of a commercially successfully steam engine
The ___ Canal increase the settlement and development of the Great Lakes region
Erie
railroads using the new steam locomotive became even more efficient to canals the first American railroad known as the _____ __ ____ (B and Q) line, was followed by thousands more miles of railroad track
Baltimore and Ohio
Federal postal service
provided a national network of information exchange which helped to tie together different parts of the country
pickney treaty
treaty between the US and Spain that established
1) Florida would be controlled by Spain
2) do US would be allowed for use of the MS river through Spanish lands
3) both the US and Spain agreed to control the Native Americans within their borders
while ____was preoccupied with uprisings, _____ (Native Americans group living in Florida) increased their raids on settlement in northern _____
Spain
seminoles
Georgia
