Lesson 11.1: A Growing Economy Industrial Growth In colonial times

Lesson 11.1: A Growing Economy

1. Industrial Growth  In colonial times, where did most Americans live? ____________________________________________________________________.  What did inventors in Great Britain build in the mid-1700’s? ____________________________________________________________________.  Where did cloth makers build their factories (mills)? __________________________.  Why did people begin to leave their homes and farms? ____________________________________________________________________.  What is this historic change known as? _____________________________________.  When did the Industrial Revolution reach the United States? ____________________.  Where did the changes begin? ____________________________________________.  List 3 reasons why the changes began in this region: a. __________________________________________________________________. b. __________________________________________________________________. c. __________________________________________________________________.  What was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution? ___________________________.  What did the machines save? _____________________ and ____________________.  In 1793 ___________________________ invented the _______________________.  What did this machine do? _____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________.  When Whitney was asked to make muskets, how were they made at that time? ____________________________________________________________________.  When Whitney made the musket parts in large numbers, what was unique about the parts? _______________________________________________________________.  What did Whitney’s idea of interchangeable parts do to manufacturing? ____________________________________________________________________.  What does a patent do? _____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________.  What did Samuel Slater do in the factory in which he worked in Britain? _____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________.  What did he do in the 1790’s? _____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________.  What did Francis Cabot Lowell begin? _____________________________________.  What does that do with all the steps of manufacturing? ____________________________________________________________________.  Who owns property and decides how to use it in capitalism? ____________________________________________________________________.

 What does “capital” include? ________________________, ___________________, _____________________________, _________________________, and ____________________________________________________________________.  What is another term we use to describe the American economic system? _______________________________________.  In this economic system where do people have to work? ____________________________________________________________________.  Who decides what to buy, sell, and produce? ________________________________. 2. Agriculture Grows  Even with the start of factories, where did most people live and work in the early 1800’s? ____________________________________.  What did farmers living north of the Ohio River in the West concentrate on? ____________________________________________________________________.  What rose sharply in the South? __________________________________________.  What made the demand for cotton to rise steadily? ____________________________________________________________________.  What allowed planters to grow cotton over a much wider area? _________________.  Between 1790 and 1820, ______________________ soared from _______________ to ____________________ bales per year in the South.  What did the success and spread of cotton create a huge demand for? ____________. 3. Economic Independence  Who provided the money necessary to build most new businesses? ______________.  What three things encouraged people to invest in new industries? ___________________, ______________________________ , and _____________.  What type of business grew in the 1830’s? _________________________________.  How do they raise money to build factories and expand their business? ____________________________________________________________________.  What did the growth of factories and trade lead to? ____________________________________________________________________.  Where did many cities develop? _________________________________________. Why (give 2 reasons)___________________________________________________, and _________________________________________________________________.  List 3 cities that grew along rivers in the West: a. ________________________ b. ____________________ c. _________________  How did these cities and towns look different from cities today? ____________________________________________________________________.  Why was disease a threat? ____________________________________________________________________.  Why could fires be so disastrous in a city? ____________________________________________________________________.