Industrial Revolution/Era Of Good Feeings Flashcards
Samuel Slater
He brought the spinning Jenny secretly to America
Robert Fulton
Steamboat
Samuel Morse
The telegraph
John Deere
The plow
What were reasons factories begin in new England states
Labor force, fast-moving water, and access to the ocean
How much of the South population in 1840 with enslaved African-Americans?
One third of white families had slaves
What problems faced free blacks in the south?
Some states made them leave although they had freedom
They couldn’t receive education
Employers would not hire them most of the time
They could be captured and brought back to their owners
They couldn’t not buy property as easy
What were some affects of Natt Turner’s rebellion
Spread fear in the south
State legislators pass laws that kept black from buying dungeon liquor
Eli Whitney
Cotton gin and interchangeable parts
What three main actions to the American system have?
High tariff to protect Am. Industry; generate revenue Preservation of the Bank (2nd Bank of the U.S ) Internal improvements (roads and canals) knit country together
In 1841 the National Road was extended to what city and state?
Call the Cumberland national Road
Connected Cumberland Virginia to Vandaill Illinois
What was the period between 1825 in 1850 known as?
Industrial revolution
What improves water transportation?
Steam boat
In the case McCoullough vs. Maryland The court ruled that the state couldn’t tax the?
National bank
Three things stated in the Missouri compromise.
Missouri admitted as a slave state
Maine as a free state
36’30 line (North prohibited South according to state)
Singer and Howe
Invented the sewing machine in the 1840’s
Transatlantic cable
Cyrus field in 1858
Three inventions that helped improve farming.
Reaper
The threshing machine
Plow
Gibbons vs Ogden
2 steamboat operators fought over shipping rights on the Hudson River
Supreme Court ruled that interstate commerce could
Lowell factory
The factory spun cotton into yarn and wove the cotton into cloth
Something was different about this factory, they hired women
Lowell girls
Young women came to Lowell in spite of the noise
They came for the good wages: between two and four dollars a week
The girls usually only worked for a few years until they married
Define industrial revolution
Industrial Revolution- a change from making things by hand to making them in factories
Working mans party
(1829) Founded by Robert Dale Owen and others in New York City
Laissez faire
gov. did much to assist capitalism
