Inventions
Invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney
This group of workers was in high demand because they were considered to be easily controlled and worked for even lower wages than men. The industrial revolution offered this group new economic opportunities, but they still carried the bulk of domestic responsibilities as well.
Who are Women
Two methods of transportation that was vital to the spread of the Industrial Revolution
What are Railroads and Steamboats
This natural geographical feature provided an opportunity for transportation.
What are Rivers
The South's economy was based on this rural practice
What is Agriculture
This device used electric signals to send messages
What is the Telegraph
The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution
What is Great Britain
A train track that stretched across the United States. It connected the East Coast to the West Coast, making it much easier and faster for people and goods to travel between the two sides of the country.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Where more northerners' moved to for work
What are Cities
The product was grown mainly in the South for large profis
What is cotton
A part of a machine or device that can be replaced by another part just like it.
What are interchangeable parts
Samuel Slater's method of unskilled, cheap labor that utilized raw materials to be made into manufactured goods in one place; made goods in mass production
What is a factory system?
When more and more people move from living in the countryside to living in cities.
What is Urbanization?
The Industrial Revolution marked a switch from products being made by humans to products being mostly made by ___________
What are machines
The plantation economy of the south relied heavily on _______________________labor.
What is slave
Invented the steamboat
Who is Robert Fulton
An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages
What is a Labor Union
This connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The canal helped ships and boats carry goods like crops and products from the Midwest to the East Coast.
What is the Erie Canal?
List one new device were developed to improve agriculture in the north?
What is/are the Mechanical Reaper/ Steel Tipped Plow, etc.
The south provided ___________________for factories of the north.
What are Raw Materials
Invented the Plow
Who is John Deere
A type of economy in which people are free to buy, sell, and produce whatever they want.
What is Free Enterprise
An essential transportation route for settlers moving westward, as it provided a more reliable and connected passage through the Appalachian Mountains; Also known as the National Road
What is the Cumberland Road?
A type of factory that produced cloth and clothing that would become very profitable and greatly improved the North's economy
What are textile mills
Due to the Cotton Gin, the increase of slavery led to the time period before the Civil War
What is the Antebellum Era