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CHAPTER 14: FORGING THE NATIONAL ECONOMY
Pages 297-308
Creeping Mechanization
Know: Factory System, Industrial Revolution
1. What barriers stood in the way of the industrial Revolution in the United States?
Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine
Know: Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Cotton Gin, King Cotton
2. Samuel Slater and Eli Whitney caused the North and South to develop in opposite directions. Explain.
3. What impact did the cotton gin have on slavery?
4. Why was New England favored as an industrial center?
Makers of America: The Germans
Know: Forty-Eighters, Mennonites, Milwaukee, Amish
5. What kind of lives did Germans live in the United States? Why?
Marvels in Manufacturing
Know: Interchangeable Parts, Isaac Singer, Limited Liability, Free Incorporation Laws, Samuel F. B. Morse
6. Of the inventions mentioned in this section, which one had the largest historical impact? Explain.
Workers and "Wage Slaves"
Know: Wage Slaves, Strikebreakers (Scabs), Commonwealth v. Hunt
7. What demands did labor have in the 1830's and 1840's?
8. How did Jackson and Van Buren attempt to help laborers?
9. Why is the U.S. Supreme Court case Commonwealth v. Hunt important to the labor movement?
Women and the Economy
Know: Lowell Mills, Catherine Beecher, Cult of Domesticity, Fertility Rate, Child-centered Homes
10. What was it like to be a woman working in a factory during the Antebellum Period?
11. What was the “Cult of Domesticity”?
12. How did industrialization change the roles of women during the Antebellum Period?
Western Farmers Reap a Revolution in the Fields
Know: Corn, John Deere, Steel Plow, Cyrus McCormick, Mechanical Mower-reaper, Cash-crop Agriculture
13. What factors led to increased productivity for farmers?