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
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