America before the Industrial Revolution
Important Inventions
Inventors
How life changed after the Industrial Revolut
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lived on farms
Where did most people in America live?
100
made it easier to spin thread
What is the spinning jenny?
100
invented the cotton gin
Who was Eli Whitney?
100
young children and women
Who did most of the work in the factories?
100
July 4, 1776
When did we declare independence?
200
New England states
Which area had the most rivers and seaports?
200
made it easier to clean cotton
What is the cotton gin?
200
memorized the plans of an English textile mill
How did Samuel Slater start his textile mill?
200
$3.00 a week
How much did factory workers make?
200
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
300
Southern states believed in this peculiar institution.
What was slavery?
300
everything needed for the production is done in one spot
What is the factory system?
300
opened a factory in Massachusetts
Who was Francis Cabot Lowell?
300
the Population
What increased after the Industrial Revolution?
300
Common Sense
What did Thomas Paine write?
400
Twenty-one
How many states were there in 1820?
400
because they needed to repair machines quickly.
Why were interchangeable plants necessary?
400
Jacob Perkins
Who got the first patent?
400
65% of the people
How many of the nation's people still lived on farms?
400
The Federal System
What is the system of the division of power between the National and State governments?
500
4 states
How many states had over 1 million people?
500
free enterprise
What is a major principle of the American economic system?
500
He invented a machine that made nails
Why did Jacob Perkins receive a patent?
500
cotton bales
What product increased production from 3,000 a year to 300,000 by 1820?
500
separation of powers
What does the checks and balance system guarantee?
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