Vocabulary
What is the term for a machine that removes seeds from cotton plants?
What is a cotton gin?
Who helped start the Industrial Revolution in the United States by building machines for spinning thread?
Who is Samuel Slater?
What invention helped farmers remove seeds from cotton quickly?
What is the cotton gin?
Before the Industrial Revolution, where did most goods get made?
Where were goods made at home by hand?
What was the main power source for the early steamboats?
What is steam
What is it called when people or machines make many goods that are exactly alike?
What is mass production?
Who invented the cotton gin in 1793?
Who is Eli Whitney?
What were the boats powered by steam engines called?
What are steamboats?
What did the Industrial Revolution lead to in terms of population movement?
What is people moving from farms to cities?
What did canals do for transportation during the Industrial Revolution?
What is they connected rivers and lakes?
What do we call the change from making goods by hand to making them by machine?
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Who started a factory for making cloth in Massachusetts and hired young women?
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
What is a machine that made it easier for people to produce items quickly and in large numbers?
What is a steam engine?
What did factories provide jobs for during the Industrial Revolution?
What are young women and children?
What helped trains move faster than those pulled by horses?
What are locomotives?
What are the things that people buy called?
What are goods?
Who was the man that sailed a steamboat on the Hudson River in 1807?
Who is Robert Fulton?
What did Eli Whitney's mass production of guns help change in factories?
What is the speed and efficiency of making goods?
How did the Industrial Revolution change the way people lived in America?
What is more people began working in factories and living in cities?
What did people want to travel faster on?
What are rivers?
What is a machine that uses steam to create power for other machines?
What is a steam engine?
Who showed how to make thousands of guns quickly in one factory?
Who is Eli Whitney?
What was the first big canal built in New York?
What is the Erie Canal?
What was a major effect of the Industrial Revolution on American cities?
What is the growth of cities around factories?
What was the purpose of railroads during the Industrial Revolution?
What is to improve land transportation?