Chapter 10 - America's Economic Revolution

Economic development

________ opened many more opportunities for people to own or work in businesses, to own shops, to engage in trade, to enter professions, and administer organizations.

Erie Canal

The ________ was not just an engineering triumph, but an immediate financial success as well.

Factory Girls Association

In 1834, mill workers in Lowell organized a union- the ________- which staged a strike to protest a 25 percent wage cut.

new agricultural technologies

The Northwest increased production not only by expanding the area of settlement, but also by adopting ________ that greatly reduced the labor necessary for producing a crop and slowed the exhaustion of the regions rich soil.

Stoves

________ gave cooks more control over the preparation of food and allowed them to cook several things at once.

instant communication

But the telegraph also permitted ________ between distant cities, tying the nation together as never before.

American population

Immigration, choked off by wars in Europe and economic crises in America, contributed little to the ________ in the first three decades of the nineteenth century but rapidly revived beginning in the 1830s.

Industrialization

________ was also profiting from the introduction of new sources of energy.

Coal

________ was replacing wood and water power as fuel for many factories.

American business

________ grew rapidly in the 1820s and 1830s, partly because of population growth and the transportation revolution, but also because of the daring, imagination, and ruthlessness of a new generation of entrepreneurs whose enormous wealth allowed for lifestyles of "conspicuous consumption ..

Leisure time

________ was scarce for all but the wealthiest Americans in the mid- nineteenth century.

American population

Immigration, choked off by wars in Europe and economic crises in America, contributed little to the ________ in the first three decades of the nineteenth century but rapidly revived beginning in the 1830s.

Railroads

________ emerged from a combination of technological and entrepreneurial innovations.

Erie Canal

The building of the ________ was the greatest construction project the United States had ever undertaken.