| A | B |
|---|
| Industrial Revolution | the revolution in the way goods were produced |
| James Hargreaves | developed a spinning jenny |
| spinning jenny | a worker could spin several threads at once |
| Edmund Cartwright | built a loom powered by water |
| cotton gin | a machine that speeded up the process of cleaning cotton fibers |
| Eli Whitney | invented the cotton gin |
| capitalists | people with money to investin business to make a profit |
| factory system | brought workers and macines together in one placeto porduce goods |
| Samuel Slater | built a spinning mill in America |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | combined spinning and weaving in a factory . After his death a factory town was developed and named after him |
| child labor | children as young as 7 worked in mills |
| long hours | working in mills were 12 hours a day 6 days a week |
| interchangeable parts | machine made parts would all be alike, the same size and shape. This would save time and money |
| hazards in the cities | muddy streets, no sewers, crowded, diseases |
| attractions in the cities | circuses, racetracks, plays, and museums |
| What were the western routes? | Great Wagon Road, Wilderness Road, Ohio River, Mohawk River to the Appalanchians, Lake Erie |
| Which new states joined the Union? | Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, and Alabama |
| Lancaster Turnpike | best road in the U.S. |
| turnpikes | toll roads |
| corduroy roads | roads make of logs |
| National Road | Ran from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, West Virginia. |
| How was river transportation better than going by road? | faster, cheaper and more comfortable |
| What problems did river travel have? | moving upstream was difficult and took much longer to travel |
| Robert Fulton | launced hos own steamboat the Clermont |
| How did steamboats revolutionize travel? | carried people and gave farmers and merchants a cheap means of moving goods |
| canal | a channel dug by people then filled with water to allow boats to cross a stretch of land |
| Erie Canal | canal built from Troy to Buffalo This helped make New York City a center of commerce |
| Era of Good Feelings | bitter disputes between Republicans and Federalists had begun to fade |
| John C. Calhoun | spoke for the South |
| Daniel Webster | spoke for the North |
| Henry Clay | from the West |
| National Bank | a charter supported the second Bank of the U.S. this helped American businesses grow |
| dumping | selling goods in another country at very low prices |
| Tariff of 1816 | it raised tariffs on imports |
| Why did the Southerners protest the tariff? | The South had few factories and had been buying British goods. The new tariff forced them to buy costly American made goods . They felt that northern manufacturers became rich at the expense of the South |
| American System | Created by Henry Clay, it called for high tariffs on imports which would help northern factories. Northerners would buy farm products from the West and South. He urged Congress to use money from the t ariff to build, roads. bridges, and canals |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Spain gave Florida to the U.S. for $5 million. |
| Monroe Doctrine | The United States would not interfere in the affairs of European nations or European colonies in the Americas. |
