Important People
Who invented the first successful steam powered locomotive (train)?
Peter Cooper
What is the word that describes the economic changes in the later 1700s when manufacturing replaced farming?
Industrial Revolution
used to separates kernels of wheat from their husks
Threshing machine
What did technology improve?
farming
Who was the builder of the first water powered textile mill in America?
Samuel Slater
The textile mills located in Lowell, Massachusetts were called the ______________?
Lowell Mills
Used to communicate by pushes of electricity
telegraph
How did the cotton gin change the amount of cotton cleaned a day?
went from 1 pound a day to 50.
Who invented America's first successful steamboat?
Robert Fulton
Cotton Gin
a machine that cuts grain
mechanical reaper
What changed happened because of the Mills opening?
Who invented the first cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What was the machine that separates kernels of wheat from their husks?
A Threshing Machine
Robert Fulton created the first __________ to travel in water.
steamboat
How many free states were there?
11
Who was the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia?
Nat Turner
What is the name of the machine that cuts grains?
Mechanical Reaper
Another word for locomotive is ___________.
Train
How many slave states were there?
11