Industrial Revolution, Madison, Monroe, and Quincy Adams

What was the main purpose of the American System?

• extend slavery to include American Indians

• obtain economic self sufficiency for the United States

• support mercantilism to buy cheap European goods

• encourage Americans to buy cheap European goods

What geographic factor influenced the location of early industrialization of the United States?

• minerals and ore provided raw materials for technological innovation

• cold, snowy climate provided fertile soil for growing a variety of crops

• Fast moving rivers in the northeast provided an energy source to power waterwheels

• Low flat prairies provided open space for building factories

How did the Industrial Revolution and factories influence the populations in the US?

• Increased urbanization

• People lost factory jobs

• Unemployment rose

• More people moved to rural areas

During the 1820s, manufacturing and trade were primary economic activities in the...

• Cities of the Northeast

• Southern plantation areas

• Gulf Coastal Regions

• Western borderlands

The increase in factories contributed to urbanization because...

• Easterners left to go west to farm new land

• cotton plantations required additional agricultural workers

• people sought employment opportunities in factories in the cities

• Northern cities promoted a better standard of living

The invention of the cotton gin resulted in the rapid increase of slave labor in the South because the cotton gin..

• was a machine that required few workers

• made cotton production more profitable

• required slave labor to manufacture the machine

• allowed slaves to perform more pleasant and rewarding jobs

Women migrated from rural communities to the cities primarily to...

• start building schools

• work in the textile mills

• seek new agricultural opportunities

• work as schoolteachers

The innovation of the steamboat most directly contributed to...

• faster cleaning of cotton

• improved transportation along rivers

• more efficient manufacturing of consumer goods

• easier production of agricultural products

What was a push factor that led to many Irish immigrants moving to the United States?

• unemployment rose

• struggle to maintain proper health insurance

• polio epidemic

• potato famine

What led to an advancement in communication?

• Samuel Morse's telegraph

• reaper

• steam engine

• steel plow