history identify Flashcards
(10 cards)
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Telegraph
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- allows faster communication
- helps businesses keep contact
- helped railroads to move efficiently
- helped people to contact family or friends
- helped a lot in civil war
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Sewing machine
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- created by Elias Howe in 1846
- reduces time it takes to sew shoes and clothing
- led to mass fashion empire
- helped bring clothing prices down to affordable prices
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Steamboat
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- reduced travel times for people and goods
- decreases freight charges
- expands industry and agriculture
- transports goods from north to south
- easy transportation
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Railroad
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- connects people from all over the world
- less travel time for people and goods
- industry and agriculture expands
- easy transportation for people
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Steel plow
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- made farming more efficient
- allowed farmers to move from substinence to cash crops
- allowed more farmers to make more money for their crops
- reduced farming times
- “John Deere invented the first steel plow”
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Mechanical reaper
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- allowed one farmer to do the work of five people
- many farmers used subsistence until this
- made more farmers able to grow and sell cash crops
- allowed farmers to make money
- made farming efficient
- Cyrus McCormick
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Entrepreneurial activity
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- Is a person who is a risk taker
- they take risks with the capital
- make new companies or businesses
- boosts US industrial output
- Alexander Mackay was a writer who followed entrepreneurs to applaud their success
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Canals
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- creates more trade routes
- decreased freight charges
- transportation of goods east to west
- The Erie Canal was the nation’s first major canal
- this canal led to many others
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National road
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- happened because of westward expansion
- provides trade routes for goods traveling east to west
- beganin1811
- South exported its cotton to England as well as to New England.
- The West’s grain and livestock fed hungry factory workers in eastern citiesand in Europe.
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Industrialization
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- provides jobs
- goods made efficiently and constantly
- new markets and products made
- many industries connect off of others
- they help each other and work together
