People
Moved to the United States and built a machine from memory that produced cotton thread at an all time high in the United States.
Samuel Slater
Where did the industrial revolution begin?
Great Britain
What powered the first textile mill factories?
Steam
Rapid manufacturing of large numbers of identical parts.
Mass production
Who came up with the idea for interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
Where in the United States did the industrial revolution begin?
New England
Cyrus McCormick invented what machine?
Mechanical Reaper
What happened to the population of cities due to urbanization?
Doubled in size
Who built the first American steam locomotive?
Peter Cooper
What caused a mass immigration of Irish settlers to the United States
The great potato famine
What did McCormick's invention do?
Cut wheat stalks faster than a human could.
How much of the $1 billion dollars invested into American businesses during the industrial revolution was invested in the north?
90%
Why did many germans immigrate to the United States during the industrial revolution?
Their revolutions failed
What invention sped up communication between cities, making messages take hours instead of days?
Telegraph
How were free African American citizens treated in the north?
They faced discrimination and didn't and didn't have equal rights or treatment.
What is the name of the code used for communicating via telegraph?
Morse code