A | B |
capitalist | person with money to invest in a business to make money |
Francis C. Lowell | spinning & weaving in ONE factory |
Eli Whitney | invented the cottin gin & interchangeable parts |
Cartwright | invented the Power Loom |
James Hargreaves | developed the spinning jenny |
Richared Arkwright | invention allowed 100 threads to be spun at once |
Sam Slater | Brit who designed the first American factory |
Moses Brown | opened first American mill with Slater |
"Lowell girls" | worked in factories before they got married |
urbanization | the movement of the population from farms to cities |
Boston Associates | merchants who built mill that turned raw cotton into finished cloth |
turnpike | toll roads |
Corduroy road | road made of logs that kept wagons from sinking while crossing swampy areas |
canal | channel dug & filled with water to allow ships to cross a section of land |
National road | first road paid for by American tax dollars |
sectionalism | loyalty to one's section or state, NOT nation |
interstate commerce | trade regulated by the Federal Government between states |
dumping | selling goods to a nation at very low prices |
James Monroe | 5th President of US |
American System | Introduced by Clay to improve all sections of the US |
protective tariff | increased prices of imported goods |