Inventions
Vocab Terms
How Early Settlers Travelled
Important People
Miscellaneous
100
This machine could spin several threads at once and replaced the spinning wheel
Spinning Jenny
100
A long, slow process, which began in Britain, that completely changed the way goods were produced
The Industrial Revolution
100
Opened by Daniel Boone; through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky
Wilderness Road
100
This man built the first successful textile mill in the United States powered by water.
Samuel Slater
100
These young women would work in the textile mills in Massachusetts
Lowell Girls
200
Private companies built gravel and stone roads and would collect tolls from travelers.
Turnpike
200
Money or other assets owned by a person
Capital
200
Settlers used this to travel across Pennsylvania
Great Wagon Road
200
This man had the idea of having machines manufacture each part, instead of them being made by hand.
Eli Whitney
200
This road ran from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, in western Virginia
The National Road
300
These were carrying passengers up and down the Atlantic coast and carried passengers and goods on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri rivers.
Steamboats
300
Roads made of logs
Corduroy Roads
300
Settlers used these to travel down the Ohio River into Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois.
Flatboats
300
This man had the idea of combining spinning and weaving under one roof.
Francis Cabot Lowell
300
This is a man-made waterway that linked the Great Lakes with the Mohawk and Hudson rivers.
The Erie Canal
400
What is this item?
Watt Steam Engine
400
Instead of working alone in their homes, many workers went to work where the machinery was.
Factory system
400
These paths went westward from Georgia and South Carolina to Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
Southern Trails
400
This man showed how a steam engine could power a boat and opened a ferry service on the Delaware River
John Fitch
400
These machines are powered by fast-moving rivers
Water-Driven Machines
500
Having machines manufacture each part. All parts would be alike and it would save time and money
Interchangeable Parts
500
A woven or knit fabric
Textile
500
These paths went from New England, New York, and Pennsylvania into the Northwest Territory
Northern Trails
500
This man launched his own steamboat, the Clermont, on the Hudson River. It carried passengers from New York City to Albany in record time
Robert Fulton
500
Having boys and girls as young as seven work in factories
Child Labor