Lesson 11.1: A Growing Economy
1. Industrial Growth
 In colonial times, where did most Americans live?
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 What did inventors in Great Britain build in the mid-1700’s?
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 Where did cloth makers build their factories (mills)? __________________________.
 Why did people begin to leave their homes and farms?
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 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?
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 When Whitney was asked to make muskets, how were they made at that time?
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 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?
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 What does a patent do?
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 What did Samuel Slater do in the factory in which he worked in Britain?
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 What did he do in the 1790’s?
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 What did Francis Cabot Lowell begin? _____________________________________.
 What does that do with all the steps of manufacturing?
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 Who owns property and decides how to use it in capitalism?
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 What does “capital” include? ________________________, ___________________,
_____________________________, _________________________, and
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 What is another term we use to describe the American economic system?
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 In this economic system where do people have to work?
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 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?
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 What rose sharply in the South? __________________________________________.
 What made the demand for cotton to rise steadily?
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 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?
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 What did the growth of factories and trade lead to?
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 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?
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 Why was disease a threat?
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 Why could fires be so disastrous in a city?
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