Economics
This many shirts were typically made in a mill in one week.
What is 6,000?
This kind of factory produces food in metal cans.
What is a canning factory?
This is where the first mill was built in the United States, in 1790.
What is Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
He was the first person to start an industrialized mill in the United States.
Who was Samuel Slater?
This is the most common housing situation for mill workers.
What is a boardinghouse?
These inventions helped news to travel faster.
What are the telegraph, telephone, and newspapers?
How much money did a man working in a mill make in one month?
What is about $32 per month? (Was that fair?)
This was the most common geographical water body near every mill.
What is a river?
This is the kind of house did the people in charge of the mill lived in.
What is a large house with servants and gardens?
This is where people could go in 1876 to see the new steam engine on display.
What is Philadelphia?
This is where most of the mill workers work before starting their new jobs.
What are farms?
These machines used belts and gears to turn thread into cloth.
What are power looms?
This is a state you would likely live in if you were a coal miner during the industrial revolution.
What is Pennsylvania?
This is the type of organization mill workers created to improve things for workers at the mills.
What are unions?
This person built the first mill with machines to spin yarn and weave cloth in the same building.
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
This form of power replaced water power in the mills.
What is coal?
This is why the mills are still important today.
What is being a reminder of history?
This was the U.S. city that was the first to use telephone numbers to place a call.
What is Lowell, Massachusetts?
This was the age of most workers in the textile mills in the 1830s.
What is between 15 and 30?
This is how many usually shared a bedroom in a boardinghouse.
What is 4-6?
This is how much money a Mill Girl made in 1845, and this is how much that is worth today.
What is about $16 a month, and what is about $2000 a month today?
This is what has happened to New England Mills over the years.
What is closing? Also, what is moving south, and later moving to other countries?
These were children's jobs in the 1800s.
What were jobs like changing bobbins (or picking stones out of coal or greasing wheels of coal cars)?