Inventors
The person who invented the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton
Samuel F.B. Morse improved this that led to the spread of communications. (hint: it's not Morse Code)
What is the telegraph?
The place where the Industrial Revolution began in the late 1700's.
What is Great Britain? or What is England?
Work went from being done in homes and small shops to factories; people and the country made more good and profits. This grew as a result of those things.
What is the economy?
What are factories?
The person who invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
John Deere invented this to help with cultivating the ground for farming.
What is the steel plow?
The city and state where the Industrial Revolution began in the United States.
What is Pawtucket, Rhode Island?
The cotton gin allowed for slaves to remove the seeds from this much cotton per day.
What is 51 pounds?
Children could not go here because of all the long hours they had to work.
What is school?
The person who built the first cotton mill in 1790?
Who is Samuel Slater?
Elias how improved this machine which helped in the mass production of clothing.
What is the sewing machine?
This mill was the first integrated mill that incorporated all the steps to produce cloth from raw cotton in a single factory.
What is Lowell's mill?
Eli Whitney's cotton gin caused profits for cotton farmers to increase. As a result, cotton plantations grew and this caused another need to increase.
What is slave labor?
This could happen to children while working in factories.
What is get hurt? or What is get killed?
The person who built the first integrated textile mill?
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell? or Who is Francis Lowell?
Edmund Cartwright invented this which automated the weaving process that used a machine instead of manual labor.
What is the power loom?
The workers in Lowell's mill were mostly these. They were called the Lowell Mills Girls.
What are women?
As a result of this form of transportation, the transportation of goods and people improved.
What is the steamboat?
Supervisors would do this to children if they made a mistake, took a break, or were talking.
What is get beaten?
The person who invented the steam engine
Who is James Watts?
This opened the access for shipping between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
This war impacted the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. because people thought the country was too reliant on foreign goods. People thought that we needed to make our own goods and improve our transportation.
What is the War of 1812?
Three things improved as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
What are the production of goods, transportation, and communications?
Factories lacked safety codes and were very _________ and _________.
What are crowded and dirty?