Industrial Inventions & Technology
This 1764 invention allowed one person to spin multiple spools of thread at once.
What is the Spinning Jenny?
This was the nation’s first railway, founded in 1828.
What is the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad?
This American is known as the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” after rebuilding British textile machines from memory.
Millions of Irish immigrants came to the United States in the 1840s and 1850s because of this devastating famine.
What is the Great Hunger?
This system replaced home production and required workers to follow schedules in large factories.
What is the Factory System?
Patented in 1769, this water-powered spinning machine was built in factories along rivers and produced stronger thread.
What is the Water Frame?
By 1840, over this many miles of rail lines crossed the East and Midwest.
What is 3,000 miles?
This war became the turning point that caused American factories to grow rapidly because trade with Great Britain was cut off.
What was the War of 1812?
This group grew rapidly in response to immigration and wanted to preserve the country for white, American-born Protestant Christians.
What were Nativists?
These young women were recruited to work in textile mills in Massachusetts and lived in company-owned boardinghouses.
What were the Lowell Girls?
This invention used electric signals to send messages quickly over long distances.
What is the Telegraph?
Telegraph lines were often built alongside this growing form of transportation.
What are railroads?
Industry in the United States first began growing in this region of the country.
What is the Northeast?
Immigrants from Germany often settled in this region of the United States.
What is the Midwest?
(T or F) Husbands and Fathers were able to spend more time at home during the industrial revolution
What is False?
This American inventor memorized British factory machine designs and built the first successful American textile factory after immigrating in 1789.
Who is Samuel Slater?
Perfected in 1807, this new form of transportation allowed ships to travel faster and more reliably than traditional sailing vessels.
What is the steamship?
This Massachusetts industrialist built mills that combined spinning and weaving in one factory and recruited young women known as the “Lowell Girls.”
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
This term describes the denial of equal rights or equal treatment to certain groups of people.
What is Discrimination?
This practice was common in early factories and involved children working long hours in industrial jobs.
What is Child Labor?
By 1790, this new power source allowed factories to move away from rivers and helped expand urban industry.
What is Steam Power?
These two inventions were eventually combined into the modern day Combine.
What are the Reaper and the Thresher?
By 1860, this percentage of the nation’s manufacturing investment was located in the North
What is 90%?
This term describes the growth of cities as more people moved into urban areas during the Industrial Revolution.
What is urbanization?
Overall, the quality of life for working-class people during the early–mid 1800s generally did this as industry expanded. (Decreased or Increased?)
What is Decreased?