Inventors
This inventor built the first successful commercial steamboat called the Clermont.
Who is Robert Fulton?
Factories helped make goods faster and more ______.
What is cheap or affordable?
This system used machines and workers in one building to produce goods.
What is the factory system?
This machine used steam to power factories, trains, and boats
What is the steam engine?
This American industrialist built one of the first successful textile mills in the United States.
Who is Samuel Slater?
As factories grew, more people moved to these areas for jobs.
What are cities?
This New England city became famous for its textile factories.
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
This invention quickly removed seeds from cotton and made cotton production faster
What is the cotton gin?
This inventor created the cotton gin, which made cleaning cotton much faster.
Who is Eli Whitney?
These were long working hours and dangerous conditions in factories.
What are poor working conditions?
These workers were young women who worked in textile mills in Lowell.
Who were the Lowell Mill Girls?
This machine spun thread much faster than people spinning by hand
What is the spinning jenny?
He invented the sewing machine in 1842.
Who is Elias Howe?
Young workers in factories during the Industrial Revolution were called this.
What is child labor?
This type of factory produced cloth from cotton.
What is a textile mill?
a device that sent electric pulses along wires in a series of dots and dashes.
What is the telegraph?
He invented a machine that makes shoes in 1883.
Who is Jan Ernst Matzeliger?
This major change moved work from homes to factories.
What is industrialization?
This American industrialist built one of the first successful textile mills.
Who is Samuel Slater?
The first machine that recorded sound and played it back.
What is the phonograph?