Mills Pay Bills
Last name of Francis who invented the mill system.
Who is Lowell?
A period of rapid growth in the United States due to technological advances.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Inventing the steamboat in 1807, this man and his friend, Clermont, rode the Mississippi River.
Who is Robert Fulton?
Samuel F.B. Morse invented this device that could send messages long distance.
What is the telegraph (Morse Code).
This cash crop exploded the economy of the south.
What is corn?
LOL, it’s actually cotton!
The Lowell system hired this demographic of workers.
What is young, unmarried women?
Workers such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and shoemakers worked in towns in this area of the United States.
What is the North?
The court case of Gibbons vs. Ogden ended this type of ownership over waterways.
What is a monopoly?
This man invented the cotton gin which greatly improved the south’s economy and make the US an economic powerhouse.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Who is Nat Turner?
Mill workers formed these to increase pay and conditions.
What are trade unions?
The United States brought over ideas originally introduced in this country.
What is the United Kingdom/Great Britain/England?
Peter Cooper and Tom Thumb, this type of steam-powered vehicle, raced against a horse drawn carriage.
What is a locomotive (train).
John Deere, today known for his tractors, designed this ”metallic” farming device.
What is the steel plow?
The cotton belt reached from Virginia all the way to this most western state in the south.
What is Texas?
Lowell’s mills were powered by this.
What is water?
A large part of the economy in the north was from these types of factories, producing items such as clothing.
What are textile mills?
The U.S. economy was greatly boosted when this type of transportation started popping up all over, making it easier to reach both ends of the country.
What is the railroad (train).
This inventor industrialized farming and made the mechanical reaper.
Who is Cyrus McCormick?
These most wealthy class in the south often owned plantations and many slaves.
What are planters/plantation owners?
This mill worker campaigned to reduce the length of the workday, reducing it to 10 hours instead of the usual 12-14 hours.
Who is Sarah Bagley?
Eli Whitney introduced many inventions, but this idea in machinery was used it to make muskets much easier to assemble.
What are interchangeable parts?
This city was founded in Illinois because of the railroad, causing it to become a huge transportation hub.
What is Chicago?
Isaac Singer invented this “machine” that many still use today, yet is an antique.
What is a sewing machine?
Over 250,000 of this group of people lived in the South by 1860, though they were still discriminated against.
What are free African Americans?