It’s All Connected
1 Identical parts that can be used to make identical products.
2 You increase the speed things are made and are they are easier to repair.
3 The amount is greatly increased.
4 More mills increased the demand for cotton
5 Fast flowing rivers
6 Textiles (cloth)
7 Women
8 About 50 pounds per day
9 About 3.2 million
10 Slavery greatly increased
11 The number of mills in the North grew along with cotton production
12 Slavery spread west
13 The reaper increased grain production
14 The turf was too tough for other plows
15 It could travel upstream
16 Most roads, canals and railroads are in the North.
17 The National Road ran from Baltimore to Illinois
18 More railroads and steamships increased the demand for coal and steel.
19 The telegraph speeded communications across huge distances.
20 The Irish built canals, particularly the Erie Canal.
21 Poverty and famine (potato famine)
– 92, – 206,041
23a Cities in the Northeast grew rapidly.
23b Jobs in factories attracted immigrants to the North.
23c Immigration increased the demand for Midwest food crops
24 It allowed a person to claim land if they lived on it for a certain amount of time.
25 Link the economies of east and west, promote settlement of the west
26 The Plains Indians were pushed onto reservations to make the land available for settlement.
27 The buffalo nearly went extinct
28 Both laws greatly increased westward migration