The North
Name 3 states in the northeast portion of "the North".
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut
What is the term for a change from craftsmen making things by hand to machines making them in factories?
the Industrial Revolution / industrialization / mechanization
True or False: Factories required that the workers they hired to be skilled.
False
What replaced wood as the primary fuel source?
coal
What was the most important invention in the South?
Who invented the steel plow?
John Deere
What was the North's economy based on after 1790?
industry / factories
I was a British immigrant who memorized the plans of textile mill machines and built America's first factory.
Samuel Slater
What was produced at the first mill? (the fancy word)
textiles
Transportation took a huge step forward with which invention? Be specific.
steam locomotive
The spinning wheel, which could spin one spool of yarn at a time, led to which invention, which could spin up to 8 spools of yarn?
spinning jenny
Which famous president built a raft to take goods to market down a river?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the most significant of the negative effects about industrialization in the North?
pollution
What year was the first factory, a mill, opened in America?
1793
What was the system of attracting workers called that recruited families?
the Rhode Island system
Who nailed in the Golden Spike on the Transcontinental Railroad? First and last name.
Leland Stanford
Invented in 1784, it could weave a lot of cloth quickly.
power loom
What was the new steel process invented in 1856 called?
Bessemer's Process
In addition to rapid industrialization, the North was experiencing _________, meaning the growth of cities.
urbanization
1) Why was New England a good place to have a mill?
2) What powered the mill?
1) had many (fast moving) rivers
2) water wheel
What was the system of attracting workers called that recruited young, unmarried women?
the Lowell system
What were the two new forms of transportation?
1) railroads
2) steamboats
Dots and dashes became known as _____ and what invention used them?
1) morse code
2) telegraph
Where (what city & state) did Andrew Carnegie create his company U.S. Steel?
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Name 5 states, other than New England & Mid Atlantic states, that were part of "The North", meaning they were part of the Union (loyal to the Union) during the Civil War.
California / Illinois / Indiana / Iowa / Kansas / Michigan / Minnesota / Nevada / Ohio / Oregon / Wisconsin
BELOW ARE SLAVE STATES LOYAL TO THE UNION Delaware / Kentucky / Maryland / Missouri / West Virginia
Name 3 of the 4 elements of Mass Production.
Interchangeable Parts
Machine Tools
Division of Labor / Assembly Line
Mass-Produced Goods
1) What is a trade union?
2) What was their "weapon"?
3) Why did they use that "weapon"?
1) groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
2) strike / protest
3) in order to encourage employers to meet their demands
How did the new forms of transportation change the lives of Americans? Name 3 of the 4
1) people can get places faster
2) goods become cheaper
3) growth of businesses
4) growth of towns and cities
Name the 3 inventions mentioned in the slideshow that Thomas Edison invented.
1) (electric) lightbulb
2) phonograph
3) batteries
Prior to the Transportation Revolution. . .
1) What would a person do with their raft after arriving to their desired city via river in order to trade?
2) Why would they do that / Why didn't they use it to go hom?
3) How would they get home?
1) sell their raft for scrap wood
2) It was too hard to paddle upstream.
3) walk