Industrial Revolution
The country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is England
Invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
Which two movements promoted equality for disenfranchised Americans?
antislavery movement and movement for women's rights
Who issues patents?
Governments
What kind of people did Lowell hire for this factories?
Young women
What do patents do for inventors?
Protected products from imitation for a set number of years.
Alexander Graham Bell invented this
What is the phone
What was a reason manufacturing/factories did not take off in the south?
cotton was highly profitable, and there was little motivation
a person who wants to abolish slavery
abolitionist
What the Industrial Revolution means
What is a change in the way people worked
What was one consequence of the invention of the cotton gin?
Increased demand for enslaved labor
Invented the telegraph
Who is Samuel B. Morse
Where were most factories in the US?
New England or north
what is morse code?
a method of telecommunication that encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations—dots (short) and dashes (long)—representing letters, numbers, and punctuation
How people made goods before the Industrial Revolution
What is by hand
Where did most people lived before and after the industrial revolution?
from small farms/rural areas to cities
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman were all 19th-century leaders in the movement to....
abolish slavery
Why was Frederick Douglass important to the abolitionist movement?
He edited an antislavery newspaper and gave speeches
How people made goods after the industrial revolution
What is with machines
What the factory owners needed to make the machines work
What is workers
Interchangeable parts are identical components that can be used in place of each other why were they important?
It was needed for mass production of goods in factories
Who improved upon existing sewing machine designs and made them more reliable and affordable during the Industrial Revolution?
Isaac Singer