Cotton Kingdom Northern Economy Getting Around GeographyGovernment in the Economy Key Concepts
The form of forced labor of African Americans in the South before the Civil War
What is slavery?
The invention in the 1790s that separated the cotton fibers from the seeds
What is the cotton gin?
The economy based on cotton as the cash crop and slavery as the labor system
What is the economy of the South?
The main cash crop of the South before the Civil War
What is cotton?
The economic system of a large farm growing cash crops and farmed with slave labor
What is the plantation system?
An economic system in which both agriculture and industry are important
What is a mixed economy?
The place where machines manufactured products for sale
What is a factory?
The manufacture and production of goods
What is industry?
Replacing a broken part with an exact duplicate of the part
What are interchangeable parts?
The practical use of scientific discoveries
What is technology?
Used steam engines and tracks to move people and goods across the land
What is the railroad?
The movement of people and goods across land and water
What is transportation?
The form of water transportation that used the steam engine to sail up the river
What is the steamboat?
An all-weather road that is paid for by taxation or tolls on the travelers
What is the turnpike?
A narrow man-made water way used to transport people and goods
What is a canal?
The factors related to people like culture, government, language, religion, economy, education, agriculture, and industry
What are human geographic features?
A place that has common human and geographic features
What is a region?
The natural features like landforms, water bodies, topography, soil, atmosphere, climate, plants, animals, and natural resources
What are physical geographic features?
How people are spread out over the land
What is population distribution?
How people live on the land and are distributed over space
What are settlement patterns?
A tax of duty on an import into a country
What is a tariff?
The government requiring the people to give it money to pay for its operations
What is taxation?
The change from mostly farming to a society based on industry and manufacturing
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A tax or duty on an import to protect a domestic industry of a country
What is a protective tariff?
The lending institution charted by the United States to regulate money and state banks
What are the Banks of the United States?
An economy where people are free to produce what they can and buy what they can afford
What is the free enterprise system?
The production of goods and products in factories by machines
What is industrialization?
A new way of doing things that is based on a technology
What is a technological innovation?
The growth of cities caused by movement from rural areas to urban areas
What is urbanization?
A new way of doing things
What is an innovation?