A type of water transportation invented by Robert Fulton that used steam power to move upstream, MOVED GOODS MORE EFFICIENTLY

Migrated to cities to work in factories

A period of growth where handmade goods were replaced by goods made in factories with machines in the 1700s

method of production in which work is done in homes rather than in a shop or factory

Fast, cheap (efficient) mass production of goods using machines & assembly lines

A market economy where people can own, sell and work in business with little government interference

Eli Whitney's invention of standard machine pieces that enabled easy replacement & mass production in factories

system of manufacturing large numbers of identical items

inventor of the Cotton Gin and Interchangable parts

invented Morse Code and the telegraph

Invented the steam engine

man who brought of all parts of the manufacturing processes within one self-contained complex

A 1793 invention by Eli Whitney that removed seeds & created a new cash crop in the South, INCREASED slavery in the South

Cloth production factory (Young female workers hired to weave cloth in factories for wages)

Cyrus McCormick's farm machine that was pulled by a horse to cut and bundle grain

Improved transportation systems to move goods and settlers west over land (some required tolls)

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Railroad across America, Replaced canals & steamboats as most efficient way to move goods, opened new MARKETS in WEST for TRADING

A communication device invented by Samuel Morse to send coded messages over wire

Invention that produced steel cheaply ans efficient, led to increase in RAILROADS going WEST

Longest trail, reason was for fertile land, Missouri to Oregon, Missionaries/Pioneers

Illinois to Salt Lake City Utah, escape religious persecution, Brigham Young

Missouri to New Mexico, William Becknell, trade gold with Mexico (New Mexico)

Followed parts of Oregon trail, broke off Oregon trail and went to Sutter's Ft. California, for gold (mineral/natural resource)

U.S. expanding territory from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, coast to coast, & North America

1848, Gained land from Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican American War

1848, ended US Mexican war, Rio Grande official boundary, paid Mexico $15 million, Mexico recognized Texas part of the U.S., & led to MEXICAN CESSION

11th president of the US focused on expansion

Annexation of Texas led to border dispute between Mexico and United States. Fighting broke out in disputed territory between the Nueces and the Rio Grande

1853, bought for $10 million from Mexico, WANTED in order to build a RAILROAD

California in search of gold (mineral/natural resource), 49'ers, Chinese immigrants, & had to cross Sierra Nevada Mountains.

1803, U.S. only wanted to purchase New Orleans (access to Mississippi River for trade), France (Napoleon) sold land to Rocky Mtns. very cheap, doubled size of U.S.

1819, Florida ceded to U.S. from Spain

Ended the American Revolution and expanded America's border to the Mississippi

Texas voluntarily joined the United States in 1845, angered Mexico

Territory was split between Great Britain and U.S. at the 49th parallel. 1st time territory reached Pacific Ocean

Population, culture, religion, social trends, social ladder

Having to do with the government

Having to do with money and jobs

Movement to end the sale and drinking of alcohol

Movement to end slavery

Movement to get women suffrage (right to vote); started at SENECA FALLS, New York

movement to create state hospitals to care for the disabled instead of placing them in prisons, creation of juvenile correctional facilities, and the work to rehabilitate prisoners while in prison; movement led by Dorthea Dix

Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education; "Father of the public school system"; a prominent proponent of public school reform, & set the standard for public schools throughout the nation; lengthened academic year; pro training & higher salaries to teachers

movement to improve working conditions and working hours; led by the Lowell Mill Girls who initiated the first strike. Movement created Labor Unions