Industries
a business that mass-produced cloth and began the Industrial Revolution
What is the textile industry?
a machine that separated seeds from cotton
What is the cotton gin?
He invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
a region whose economy relied on cash crops and slavery
What was the South?
a big change
What is a revolution?
An industry that relied on the warm climate and fertile land in the South to produce cash crops
What is the farming industry?
parts of a machine that can be easily fixed; pieces made to a specific size to replace the parts that are broken
What are interchangeable parts?
He created the mechanical reaper
Who was Cyrus Hall McCormick?
a region whose economy relied heavily on factories and industry
What was the North?
big businesses
What is industry?
This industry relied on the National Road, the B&O Railroad, and the Erie Canal to ship goods quickly and efficiently
What is the transportation industry?
An invention that sped up long-distance communication
What was the telegraph?
He improved Edmund Cartwright's Power loom to only need one operator
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
a region that has more urban areas in the 1800s
What was the North?
an economy that allows people to become very rich, allows big businesses/corporations to become very powerful and competitive
What is capitalism?
An industry that relied heavily on free human labor to plant and harvest cash crops in the South
What was the slave industry?
an invention that quickly cut stalks of wheat and gathered them for processing
What was the McCormick reaper?
revolutionized river travel with the steamboat
Who was Robert Fulton?
a region that was mostly rural
What was the South?
a method of production in which a large crew of people do work in one location on machines; an assembly line
What is a factory system?
An industry that caused the slave trade to increase after Eli Whitney's invention
What is the cotton industry?
An innovation that would use a different metal to turn up the prairie soil so farmers could plant seeds in the tougher soil
What was the steel plow?
sped up long-distance messages to real-time with the telegraph
Who was Samuel F. B. Morse?
These regions became interdependent during the Industrial Revolution
What were the North and South?
This word describes the relationship between the North and the South during America's First Industrial Revolution; for example with the Textile Industry
What is interdependent?