Inventions
Migration
Quality of life
Communication
Transportation
100
What did the cotton gin do
Increased cotton production
100
Why did towns spring up everywhere
because train paths were laid everywhere
100
What was the Industrial Revolution?
A period of time when there was a shift from making goods by hand
100
what was the communication like before the printing press
there communication was very limited
100
What was one of the first ways of transportation
the first railroad
200
who invented the mechanical reaper
Cyrus McCormik
200
why were people going all over the place
to go to new towns
200
What were Lowell's workers called?
Mill Girls
200
why was communication important
so they could tell everyone what was happening
200
What did they replace horses with
with steam engines
300
what did Elais Howe invent
The sewing machine
300
how were so many settlements being built
they took money from places from factories, put them on trains and built along the tracks
300
How did this separate families?
They no longer worked together
300
what was invented after the printing press
telegraph
300
were was the first railroad invented
Baltimore Ohio
400
what is the meaning of Samuel F.B Morse
A portrait painter invented the Morse code
400
why did the cost of products decrease
because more railroads were being built
400
What did kids have to do during the day?
Instead of a education they had to work in the factors
400
Why was the telegraph important
for long distance communacation
400
How many miles did the tomb thumb lay
13 miles
500
What Francis Cabot Lowell factory for
spinning and weaving clothes
500
what impact did railroads have in the U.S.
it began what would become the transcontinential railroad
500
How did this help the nation?
It made products go on the shelf faster
500
Why was communication limited?
they had rarely any inventions to reach out with eachother
500
How many passengers did the tom thumb hold
40
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