Flashcards: Industrial Expansion and Westward Growth — 22 cards

Inventions — role in economy?

Fueled industrialization and growth

Cotton gin — inventor?

Eli Whitney

Interchangeable parts — purpose?

Enable mass production and repair

Steam power — impact?

Revolutionized transportation and manufacturing

Telegraphs — inventor?

Samuel Morse

Reapers — inventor?

Cyrus McCormick

Spinning Jenny — inventor?

James Hargreaves

Impact of cotton gin — on slavery?

Increased demand for slave labor

Factory system — function?

Mass produce goods using machinery

Textile mills — significance?

Central to industrial growth and urbanization

Transportation — key developments?

Railroads, canals, steamboats, roads

Railroads — role?

Transport goods and people efficiently

Canals — purpose?

Connect waterways for trade

Immigration — push factors?

Economic hardship, persecution

Pull factors — examples?

Jobs, freedom, opportunity

Chinese immigration — reason?

Work on railroads, gold rush

Chinese Exclusion — law?

1882 law restricting Chinese immigration

Nativism — definition?

Favoring native-born citizens

Xenophobia — effect?

Discrimination against foreigners

Westward Trails — motivations?

Economic opportunities and religious freedom

Mountain Men — role?

Explorers and guides in the West

Manifest Destiny — origin?

John O. Sullivan, 1839, divine right to expand