Industrial Revolution
Famous People
Transportation Revolution
Random Questions
Life in the North
100
Cloth items are known as?
What are TEXTILES?
100
American inventor who developed the telegraph.
Who is SAMUEL F.B. Morse?
100
Section of the U.S. that benefited most from canals & roads.
What is the NORTHEAST?
100
Country where textile manufacturing began.
What is England?
100
Give one description of Northeastern cities
What is dirty? What is crowded? What is full of factories? What is dangerous? What are centers of learning, art, and education?
200
A period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production that began in the mid-1700's
What is the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?
200
His best idea was coming up with interchangeable parts!
Who is ELI WHITNEY?
200
A period of rapid growth in the speed and convience of travel.
What is the TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION?
200
Location of where most of the nations early factories were built.
Where is NEW ENGLAND or NORTHEAST?
200
What is a trade union?
What are an organization of workers who try to improve pay and working conditions for members?
300
A system developed by Samuel Slater in the mid-1800's in which whole familes were hired and factory work was divided into simple tasks.
What is the RHODE ISLAND SYSTEM
300
He made improvements to the sewing machine.
Who is ISAAC SINGER?
300
Where most of the railroads were located in the 1850's.
What is the NORTHEAST?
300
Problems that caused the Germans to migrate to the U.S.
What are economic and political?
300
New England, or the Northeast, was a good place to build factories because...
What is they had a lot of fast moving rivers that could power machines?
400
The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
What is MASS PRODUCTION?
400
His system included hiring enitre families and divididing work into simple tasks.
Who is SAMUEL SLATER?
400
One of the effects of the railroad in the NORTHEAST.
What is caused cities to grow, growth of businesses, and cutting down large areas of trees?
400
Why did the "Lowell girls" work in the factories?
What is THEY LIKED LIVING IN A BIG CITY?
400
What industry started the Industrial Revolution?
What is TEXTILE MANUFACTURING?
500
The parts of a machine that are identical.
What are INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS?
500
His invention allowed people to communicate over long distances
Who is MORSE?
500
List two machines, from the Transportation Revolution, that affected trade and daily life.
What are the steam train and steamboat?
500
What are the Lowell Mills?
What is TEXTILE MILLS that EMPLOYEED DAUGHTERS of NEW ENGLAND FARMERS (single, unmarried women)?
500
What is another word for making things?
What is MANUFACTURING?
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