The Industrial Revolution is said to have begun in this country.
What is Great Britain/England/Britain
100
This Machine made it easier to separate cotton seeds from the cotton fibers.
What is the Cotton Gin?
100
This man invented the Cotton Gin and Interchangeable parts.
Who was Eli Whitney?
100
In economics, this is sometimes referred to as money, it could also be considered one's property or time.
What is Capital?
100
These toll roads were set up by businesses and were financed by collecting fees to use them.
What is a turnpike?
200
This Region of the United States is where the Industrial Revolution began in America.
What is New England
200
The invention of this "piece" of technology made it easier to rebuild, repair and transport all kinds of machinery.
What is interchangeable parts?
200
This man designed the most powerful steamboat of its era.
Who was Robert Fulton?
200
Under this type of economic system, people put their money, time or property into a business hoping that the business will be successful.
What is Capitalism?
200
The problem with river travel is that most rivers flowed in these two directions.
What is north and south/south and north?
300
This was the source of energy that powered textile mills in Great Britain and the US.
What is Water from rivers, lakes or brooks?
300
This steamboat was the most powerful of its kind. It was able to move upstream from New York City to Albany.
What is The Clermont?
300
This man designed the Erie Canal.
Who was De Witt Clinton?
300
Every few years the U.S. Government conducts this. It is an official count of a population.
What is a census?
300
This famous canal was designed to fix the problem of rivers flowing north and south. It stretched from the Hudson River to Lake Erie.
What is the Erie Canal?
400
This man memorized the designs of the British Water Mill and brought the design over to America.
Who is Samuel Slater?
400
This new type of system allowed for all of the steps in manufacturing to be housed in one place, creating efficiency.
What is the Factory System?
400
This man designed the first Factory System.
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
400
In this type of economic system, people are free to buy, sell and produce whatever they want.
What is Free Enterprise?
400
These separate compartments within Canals, raised and lowered boats in places where the canal's levels changed by allowing excess water into or out of the compartment.
What are locks?
500
4 Part Answer: These four attributes of New England's Geography contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
What is Poor Soil for farming?
What is an abundance of Rivers?
What is rich in raw materials such as coal and iron?
What is close to the coast and therefore close to trade
500
Before the invention of the Cotton Gin, the south only produced roughly 3,000 bales of cotton a year. With the invention of the Cotton Gin, the amount of cotton per year rose to roughly this amount.
What is 300,000?
500
This man was a political and business leader in 1802. He hired a particularly smart engineer to build a steam engine that could make a steam boat travel up stream quickly.
Who was Robert Livingston?
500
These are the elements that make up a Free Enterprise.
What is Competition, profits, private property and economic freedom?
500
in 1800 only 387,000 white settlers live west of the Appalachian mountains. By 1820 that number grew to over this amount.