Mills & Factories
The first mills were powered by this.
What is water?
This became one of the most powerful industries in the United States in the 1800s.
What is the railroad industry?
This person invented the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
Because new machines were too large to fit in a person's home and needed a power source, people began building these.
What were factories?
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods is known as this.
What is mass production?
Most of the mills in the United States were built in this region.
Where was the Northeast?
This replaced wood as the main source of power for locomotives.
What was coal?
This skilled British mechanic brought his knowledge of cloth-producing machines to the United States. He smuggled the designs out of Britain by memorizing the designs to the machines.
Who was Samuel Slater?
This invention made river travel faster.
What was the steamboat?
Dots and dashes are used to stand for each letter of the alphabet in this system.
What is Morse code?
This describes working conditions in early mills and factories.
What is dangerous and unhealthy?
This could sometimes explode on early locomotives.
What was the boiler?
This American inventor made use of the idea of interchangeable parts and promised to produce 10,000 muskets in two years.
Who was Eli Whitney?
This device could send information over wires across great distances.
What was the telegraph?
This was the period of rapid growth that introduced machines in manufacturing and production.
What was the Industrial Revolution?
The Lowell System most often hired these people to work in their factories.
Who were women?
This material was used to make the rails that trains rode on.
What is steel?
This person helped to improve the invention of the sewing machine.
Who was Isaac Singer?
This term means parts made from pieces that are exactly the same.
What are interchangeable parts?
Mass production caused prices of goods to do this.
What is decrease/go down?
This development allowed factories to be built almost anywhere.
What was the invention of the steam engine/steam power?
What was the crossing of mountains and rivers?
This person invented one of the first trains and named it the "Tom Thumb."
Who was Peter Cooper?
This name is given to the period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel in the United States.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
This industry started the Industrial Revolution.
What is the textile industry?