Jackson/Industrial Revolution Review The Adam-Onis Treaty gave Florida to the United States as long as they renounced their claim to Texas. It set the borders for the Louisiana Purchase. The Monroe Doctrine warned European countries that they should not attempt to colonize Latin America‚ or they would face military threats. In 1819‚ Missouri requested to become a slave state. This would upset the balance of pro-slavery/anti-slavery states. Henry Clay Missouri Compromise Admitted Missouri as a slave
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Chapter 9: Economic Transformation‚ 1820-1860 Section 1: The American Industrial Revolution How did American textile manufactures compete with British manufactures? How successful were they? American textile manufactures were at an advantage compared to British manufactures‚ and they were very successful. America persuaded Britain to prohibit the export of textile machinery and the emigration of mechanics. Yet‚ still many British mechanics migrated over to the United States because they were lured
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Labor unrest grew as industrialization took off‚ hitting railroads first because they had strong capital and government support. Workers felt powerless as their skills became less valuable in an economy dominated by big companies. Long hours‚ dangerous conditions‚ and low wages led to significant labor movements. After the Civil War‚ technological innovations and investments lowered production and distribution costs. Big firms were supported by administrative frameworks and national credit agencies
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The Industrial Revolution helped develop America into the advanced country it is today. With new forms of technology‚ transportation‚ and factory production‚ the great inventors during that time period transformed the daily way of life. (Heilbroner 12) Before the great Industrial Revolution‚ as in the 1700’s and early 1800’s‚ three-fourths of America’s total population grew their own food and wove their own clothing all by hand‚ without any form of technology to help‚ so simple tasks were very
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cities began to flourish. New innovations like the steamboat and the canals opened reduced the cost of transportation‚ and made the sell of goods easier for economic enterprises. They helped farmers stay connected to the national market. The invention of the steamboat made possible upstream commerce as well as rapid transport across the great lakes. Sailors didn’t have to rely on wind or currents and they could sail directly to ports.The Erie canal was 363 miles long and was completed in 1825
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When the telephone did not exist‚ what device did people use for communications? The telegraph was the answer‚ made by Samuel F. B. Morse. An invention that could transmit an electric pulse across a cable to send messages. This invention was looked poorly upon at the beginning of its time. But one man had the guts to invest in Morse’s telegraph‚ and he soon became one of the reasons the telegraph was created. The telegraph caused the telephone to be invented. Morse had wanted to be able to “talk
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Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). Persia’s earliest known kingdom was the proto-Elamite Empire‚ followed by the Medes; but it is the Achaemenid Empire that emerged under Cyrus the Great that is usually the earliest to be called "Persian. The first record of the Persians comes from an Assyrian inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them the Parsu (Parsuash‚ Parsumash) and mentions them in the region of Lake Urmia alongside
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Nebuchadnezzar II‚ and Cyrus the Great. Hammurabi was the ruler of the Babylonian empire he also created the code of Hammurabi. Ashurbanipal was the Assyrian king; he created a huge library called Nineveh. Nebuchadnezzar II drove the Egyptians out of Syria. He also built the Hanging gardens of Babylon. It is now one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Cyrus the Great was a powerful Persian king. He had a vision of conquering lands around Persia. Some of the inventions in Mesopotamia were the
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be made in factories as opposed to at home. Rising industries and factories led people to move from farms to cities. This led to other overcrowding and disease. However‚ agriculture got better including machines and cultivators. For example‚ Cyrus McCormick created the reaper which allowed for quick and cheap harvesting of grain. John Deere then created the first steel plow in 1837 helping speed farming across the Midwest. Due to increasing size of the United States‚ communication networks became
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APUSH – Chapter 11 (Technology‚ Culture‚ and Everyday Life‚ 1840-1860) Identifications John Deere’s Steel-Tipped Plow and Cyrus McCormicks’s Mechanical Reaper – Deere invented a steel-tipped plow that halved the labor to clear acres to till. Timber for housing and fencing was available in nearby woods‚ and settlements spread rapidly. McCormick developed the mechanical reaper which harvested grain seven times faster than traditional methods with half the work force and guaranteed that wheat would
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