Chapter 10: Expansion and Growth | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Expansion and Growth in the United States during the Early Republic

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What is a market revolution?

transition from a pre-industrial economy to a capitalist economy

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In 1793, where did Samuel Slater build his first cloth factory?

Rhode Island

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What invention of Edmund Cartwright’s did Francis Cabot Lowell update and improve?

power loom

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To which items did Eli Whitney apply his system of interchangeable parts?

rifles

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What does the mechanical reaper do?

cuts and gathers wheat

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How long did widespread use of the telegraph for personal, business, and government communication last?

more than 100 years

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Why did mill owners tend to hire girls and young women as workers?

The owners could pay girls and young women less than they paid men.

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Explain why Robert Fulton’s steamboats were an important innovation.

Steamboats revolutionized river travel and made shipping faster, which resulted in better and faster communication.

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What was the Industrial Revolution?

an era in which widespread production by machinery replaced goods made by hand

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What is a factory system?

a method of production in which large crews of people performed work in one location

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What are textiles?

the cloth and clothing made from cotton and other raw materials

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What is a strike?

a work stoppage in order to force an employer to comply with demands

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What are interchangeable parts?

parts of a mechanism that can be substituted one for another

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What is a steamboat?

a boat outfitted with steam boiler engines to power the paddle wheels that propel it forward

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What is a telegraph?

a machine that sent messages long distances by sending electrical pulses in code over electrical wires

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What is a reaper? (Not the Carolina Reaper)

a machine that cuts stalks of wheat or oats

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