Vocabulary
Key Figures
Inventions
Changes in Society
Transportation
100

What is the term for a machine that removes seeds from cotton plants?

What is a cotton gin?

100

Who helped start the Industrial Revolution in the United States by building machines for spinning thread?

Who is Samuel Slater?

100

What invention helped farmers remove seeds from cotton quickly?

What is the cotton gin?

100

Before the Industrial Revolution, where did most goods get made?

Where were goods made at home by hand?

100

What was the main power source for the early steamboats?

What is steam

200

What is it called when people or machines make many goods that are exactly alike?

What is mass production?

200

Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?

Who is Eli Whitney?

200

What were the boats powered by steam engines called?

What are steamboats?

200

What did the Industrial Revolution lead to in terms of population movement?

What is people moving from farms to cities?

200

What did canals do for transportation during the Industrial Revolution?

What is they connected rivers and lakes?

300

What do we call the change from making goods by hand to making them by machine?

What is the Industrial Revolution?

300

Who started a factory for making cloth in Massachusetts and hired young women?

Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?

300

What is a machine that made it easier for people to produce items quickly and in large numbers?

What is a steam engine?

300

What did factories provide jobs for during the Industrial Revolution?

What are young women and children?

300

What helped trains move faster than those pulled by horses?

What are locomotives?

400

What are the things that people buy called?

What are goods?

400

Who was the man that sailed a steamboat on the Hudson River in 1807?

 Who is Robert Fulton?

400

What did Eli Whitney's mass production of guns help change in factories?

What is the speed and efficiency of making goods?

400

How did the Industrial Revolution change the way people lived in America?

What is more people began working in factories and living in cities?

400

What did people want to travel faster on?

 What are rivers?

500

What is a machine that uses steam to create power for other machines?

What is a steam engine?

500

Who showed how to make thousands of guns quickly in one factory?

Who is Eli Whitney?

500

What was the first big canal built in New York?

What is the Erie Canal?

500

What was a major effect of the Industrial Revolution on American cities?

What is the growth of cities around factories?

500

What was the purpose of railroads during the Industrial Revolution?

What is to improve land transportation?

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