4,962
edits
AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions
m
→Economic progress
| Line 1,001: | Line 1,001: | ||
* LaFayette tour | * LaFayette tour | ||
=== Economic | === Economic changes === | ||
The Appalachian watershed provided almost unlimited opportunity for building of mills and dams to serve them. In Massachusetts, | The Appalachian watershed provided almost unlimited opportunity for building of mills and dams to serve them. In Massachusetts, | ||
* Commonwealth system|favorable laws, loans and public policy withing states towards transportation, industrial enterprises, etc. under the idea that such preferences were "for the common welfare" | |||
* dams | * dams | ||
* eminent domain | * eminent domain | ||
* mills | * Lancaster Turnpike | ||
* mills|from 1809 to 1817, the number of "spinner mills" (just one type of mill) grew from 8,000 to 330,000; spinner mills created yarn from wool and replaced hand-run spinners | |||
* Mill Dam Act of 1795|Massachusetts law that granted dam owners rights to build dams that flooded farmland, forcing them to accept "fair compensation" for the lost land, without possibility of stopping the dam itself | * Mill Dam Act of 1795|Massachusetts law that granted dam owners rights to build dams that flooded farmland, forcing them to accept "fair compensation" for the lost land, without possibility of stopping the dam itself | ||
* turnpikes | |||