Revolution
Inventions
The Life of a Worker
Inventions with Transportation
Grab Bag
100
This is the time of change where the United States gained technology and inventions in order to become completely independent from England.
What is the industrial revolution?
100
This invention changed transportation and allowed for people to travel longer distances more efficiently.
What is the railroad?
100
The presence and need of more cotton led to an INCREASE in this.
What is slavery? Even though slavery was already present during this time, the increase of cotton led for the demand of slaves to be higher. More cotton needed to be picked, so more slaves were needed.
100
This invention was created in order to power different machines, including large boats. It worked by heating up water to make steam. The steam pushed and turned a giant wheel which moved the different machines.
What is the steam engine?
100
There was an increase in this during the Industrial Revolution because there were now opportunities for more jobs in the cities.
What is immigration?
200
This includes technology and inventions.
What is industry?
200
This invention was created by Eli Whitney. He created this invention in order to make the process of seperating cotton and cotton seeds more efficient. The process of sorting went from one pound of cotton per day to 50 pounds of cotton per day with the creation of this machine.
What is the cotton gin?
200
These people were paid very little for their work amounting up to about $2.00 per week. They worked in rough working conditions where there were many times that they were injured or killed. They spent long shifts for up to 12 hours in the factories.
Who were the children?
200
This invention changed transportation forever. It allowed for trips that would have taken weeks to only take hours or days.
What is the railroad?
200
Eli Whitney created these two inventions.
What were the cotton gin and the interchangeable parts?
300
This creation changed the industry of America forever.
What are factories?
300
The creation of these factories made the production of cloth and clothing much more quick and efficient.
What are textile mills?
300
The Industrial Revolution was revolutionary for these people because it was the first time they were allowed to work. These people also worked long, hard hours and only earned half of what other groups of people earned.
Who were the women? Men were paid double that the women were to work similar jobs. Women had many strict rules to follow and worked long, hard days in factories.
300
This was the main source of fuel in the Industrial Revolution. It was used in trains and steam engines, as well as factories.
What is coal?
300
One positive outcome of the Industrial revolution was ____________.
-booming economy -people were able to travel across the US -products were cheaper -there were more products to buy -there were more jobs
400
Because of the industrial revolution life was way more _______________.
What is efficient?
400
The spinning jenny and the water frame were used in textile mills for the production of cloth. This is the main difference between these two inventions.
What is efficiency? The spinning jenny needed a skilled worker to spin the machine, whereas the water frame was more efficient and was spun by a water wheel.
400
These were the workers that had a positive perspective of the Industrial Revolution.
Who were the textile mill bosses, the lawyers, and the teachers? These people had positive perspectives of working during the Industrial Revolution because they had the good jobs. They were paid well for their work and they did not have the harsh working conditions of others who worked during this time period.
400
When traveling before the Industrial Revolution, people used to _____________________. After the industrial revolution, people ____________________.
When traveling before the industrial revolution, people used to travel by foot or on horseback. After the industrial revolution, people traveled by railroad.
400
One negative outcome of the industrial revolution was _____________.
-growth of cotton led to increase in slavery -loss of economy and jobs for farmers and small town workers with production of factories and machines
500
America did not start the Industrial Revolution until after this historical event.
What is the Civil War?
500
This invention included an arrangement of workers where an item moves along a conveyer belt and workers add to the item as it moves along until the whole piece is assembled. The use of this invention increased production because it made production more efficient and more products could be made at the same time with the division of labor.
What is the assembly line?
500
Because of the production of factories in the Industrial Revolution, these people suffered and lost their jobs.
Who were the farmers and small town workers? These people lost their jobs because the demand for these types of jobs was not needed. Factories and machines moved people out of country and into the city. These people, as well as many other people in desperate need of money, were forced to take on the suffering role as factory workers.
500
This is the difference in daily life before the Industrial Revolution when compared to life after the Industrial Revolution.
The main difference was that before the Industrial Revolution, everything was made by hand. After the industrial revolution, production was more efficient with the use of factories.
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