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What is a consumer?
A person who buys what is produced by an economy.
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What is the invention that allowed people to stay up past sunset to work?
Oil lighting
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How much money did women make in the mills weekly?
$1.50
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What were the conditions like on the steamships?
Difficult, overcrowded, miserable
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What are four natural resources from this unit?
Iron, Copper, Timber, Coal
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What is an investor?
A person who puts money into a company in order to gain a future financial reward.
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What is the invention that created a huge issue in the South since cotton could now be harvested faster
The Cotton gin
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On average, how many hours did women work in the mills each week?
73
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What is Nativism?
Hostility towards immigrants by native-born people.
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How did the Industrial Rev negatively impact the environment?
Less food, air pollution, water pollution, less trees
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What is an entrepreneur?
A person who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.
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What is the telegraph used for?
Immediate messaging
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Factories employed how many textile workers in Lowell Massachusetts.
8,000
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Why did Nativist oppose immigration?
Religion - Catholics swamping the Protestants
and/or Immigrants undermining American workers for lower working wages |
What advantages did the Industrial Rev have on the Environment?
Human opportunities, more money
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What is GNP?
Gross National Product - the total value of all goods and services that a country produces during a year.
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What is the machine that made it cheaper to make thread?
The Spinning Jenny
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What did the women do in response to rumors of wage cuts?
They went on strike and created the first union for working women in American history
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What is the idea of America as a melting pot?
A society where many different types of people blend together as one.
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what happened to the population as a result of the Industrial Rev?
The population nearly tripled.
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What is Laissez-Faire?
A policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
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What is the farming equipment that allowed for harvesting to be done at a much faster pace?
The McCormick Reaper
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Give four poor working conditions within the factories.
Poor building structures, dangerous machinery, crowded boarding houses, and a variety of frequent accidents
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What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
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Petroleum became a new resource - why was it in high demand?
It turned into kerosene.
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