National Market Economy Flashcards
1
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Samuel Slater (1791)
A
- “Father of the Factory System”
- from Britain - “escaped” to America
- memorized the plans for textile machines and brought it to america
2
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the cotton gin (1793)
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- eli Whitney
- separated the seed from the cotton fiber
- 50 times more effective than handpicking
- cotton suddenly becomes highly profitable
3
Q
east coast factories
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- Philadelphia, Boston, New York
- shipping areas to the Atlantic
- textile mills are huge - using Southern cotton
- by 1860 - 400 million pounds of cotton are used each year in New England textile mills
4
Q
workers or slaves?
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- southern plantations use slave labor in their economy
- northern factories hire workers for a wage
- majority of workers in textile factories were children (cheap)
- hours in factories were long (12-16 hours a day)
- wages were very low
- factory workers were called “wage slaves”
5
Q
the reaper (1830)
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- Cyrus McCormick
- could do the work of five men
- wheat production in the West is now profitable
- Going West is now a strong possibility to start over and make money
6
Q
immigration booms
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- factory jobs
- farming out west
- chance at a new future in America
7
Q
remember this…
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the Industrial revolution causes a boom in jobs, production, and goods. machines began to change society. in today’s world nothing much has changed. we still want bigger, faster, and stronger
8
Q
with the emergence of mass production in the 1790’s came the need for _________
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workers
9
Q
which of the following words correlates best with the term machinery>
A
mechanization
10
Q
in the 1790’s the North __________
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was very industrial
11
Q
mechanization made it possible for advancement in all of the following areas except _________
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education
