Industrial Revolution Innovations
This invention by Eli Whitney sped up cotton processing and increased demand for enslaved labor.
What is the Cotton Gin?
These countries had fleeing crop failures, land shortages, rising taxes, famine, and lack of work which pushed people out.
What are Europe/Asia?
This man created the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney
(n.) the process of an economy’s shift from agriculture to manufacturing
What is Industrialization?
These factories used young women as workers and became a model of early industrial labor.
What are textile factories?
People showed this when more immigrants started settling in the United States.
What is nativism?
Cotton was grown in these areas of the U.S during the Industrial revolution.
What are the Southern States?
(n.) a type of cloth or woven fabric
What is a textile?
This communication device used electrical signals to send messages long distances.
What is the telegraph?
People moved to the US because of job opportunities in factories, mines, and railroads, higher wages, the promise of a better standard of living.
What are pull factors?
Factories were built in these areas of the U.S to produce textiles.
What are the Northern states?
(n.) the movement of people from rural areas into cities
What is Urbanization
This system of identical machine‑made parts allowed factories to mass‑produce goods.
What are interchangeable parts?
People who have moved from one country to another.
What are Immigrants?
This British-born engineer built America’s first successful water‑powered textile mill in Rhode Island.
Who was Samuel Slater?
(n.) the major social and economic changes that occurred in the 19th century when new machinery, new sources of power, and new ways of manufacturing products were developed
What was the Industrial Revolution?
his major transportation project connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and boosted trade.
What is the erie canal?
The industrial revolution brought many immigrants and these immigrants were used for this.
What is labor?
This city became a major industrial center due to its steel production and access to rivers and railroads.
What is Pittsburg?
(n.) identical pieces that can be used to build or fix something and swapped out if one breaks
What are interchangable parts?