Inventions/Innovations
This is a new idea or product that improves how something works.
What is an innovation?
These are reasons that force people to leave their home country.
What are push factors?
This term means making goods in factories using machines.
What is manufacture?
This region of the U.S. had most factories during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the North?
True or False: The North relied heavily on slavery for factory labor.
What is False?
These identical machine pieces allowed products to be repaired quickly and cheaply.
What are interchangeable parts?
These are reasons that attract people to move to a new country
What are pull factors?
This refers to areas where people live in cities rather than rural farming regions.
What is urban / urbanization?
Many immigrants lived in these crowded, unsafe apartment buildings.
What are tenements?
This invention increased cotton production and increased demand for enslaved labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This invention allowed messages to be sent instantly over long distances
What is the telegraph?
This Irish crisis caused mass starvation and forced many people to emigrate.
What is the Great Irish Famine?
A building where many workers use machines to produce goods.
What is a factory?
They were made to run machines because they were replaceable and could do dangerous things
What are children?
Many factory workers in Lowell were this group of people, often young and unmarried.
Who are women / mill girls?
This farming invention used iron and steel to cut through tough soil on the Great Plains.
What is the steel plow?
Many immigrants came to the U.S. because factories offered this, even though it was low-paying.
What are job opportunities in the Industrial Revolution?
Cloth or fabric used to make clothing and other materials.
What is textile?
This describes cities with pollution, overcrowding, and fast population growth.
What is urbanization
This term describes diseases caused by inhaling cotton dust in textile mills.
What is brown lung disease?
What system used many women and girls in textile factories?
What is the Lowell System?
Scenario: A family leaves Germany after political unrest and arrives in America where factories are hiring thousands of workers willing to accept low wages. Identify BOTH a push factor and a pull factor in this situation.
What are push: political unrest in Germany / pull: factory jobs in the U.S. with available work?
This system of production increased output and made goods cheaper by standardizing parts and labor steps.
What is industrialization
This type of organization formed to improve wages and working conditions for laborers.
What is a trade union?
Which large construction project connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and why was it important?
What is the Erie Canal? What is easier transportation of trade goods?