Invention
Who invented the cotton gin in 1792?
Eli Whitney
This le to the increased factory production and led to the growth of cities like New Orleans and St. Louis bedause it could move goods and people faster up and down rivers.
Steam boat
Which innovation was MOST responsible for the growth of industry in the 1800's?
1. Automobiles
2. Electricity
3. Telegraph
4. Steam power
Steam power
Urbanization created more jobs in cities; however, a negative consequences was what?
Pollution
This was a byproduct of the growth of factories that produced negative consequences.
Pollution
Telegraphs were used to do what?
Transmit electrical signals over wires from location to location and translate it into a message.
Manmade waterways that were used for travel and shipping were called.
canals
All of the following explain the increase in numbers of factories EXCEPT -
1. A increase use of steam power.
2. Improved transportation.
3. International slave trade
4. Blockade during the WAR of 1812
International slave trade
Which of the following encouraged people to move to cities?
1. Increased number of jobs
2. Technological innovations.
3. Improved transportation
4. All of the above
All of the above
The average work day for a worker during the Industrial Revolution was . . .
12-14 hours a day
Who invented the Kodak camera?
James Eastman
What innovation in transportation led to the opening of the west and created a nationwide transportation network that united the nation?
Railroad
The factory system contributed to rapid industrialization. Products could be produced faster and cheaper; Factories would hire
- low wage workers
- immigrants
- child labor
- low skilled workers
- all of the above
All of the above
Industrialization led to more jobs in the North. The south was known for its warm climate and fertile soil. This resulted in agriculture using the -------------system?
Plantation
This vulnerable population was exploited as cheap labor during the Industrial Revolution.
Children
This was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764 and had a big impact on the textile industry. What was it?
Spinning Jenny
The first car was built by who?
Henry Ford
This was used to move semi-completed parts from work station to work station in factories.
Bonus: Who invented it?
Assembly line
Bonus: Henry Ford
This term is used to describe the rapid growth in cities
Urbanization
What devices built near rivers were used to spin cotton thread on spindles into cloth?
Water wheels and windmills
What was the code called used on telegraph machines to transmit messages?
Bonus: who invented it?
Morse code
Bonus: Samuel Morse
What transportation issue was an essential ingredient in industrialization and allowed the transport of raw materials and cole to factories at accelerated rates?
The railroad
Richard Arkwright invents a machine that can spin and weave cloth 100 times faster than by hand. Since the machine was so large, it was stored in a factory. What was the machine called?
Water frame
s inventions like the seed drill and new farming methods, like crop rotation and fertilizers became more widely available and utilized, farming is more productive.
Large landowners pass laws, known as ____
allowing them to buy land from the Commons and change it to privately owned land, forcing poor families to move to the city.
Before the invention of the steam engine, what was used to pull water out of the cole mines?
Horses