Industrial Revolution Basics
The first stage of the Industrial Revolution focused on producing this good.
👉 What are textiles?
Samuel Slater changed the American factory system by doing this.
👉 What is building water-powered factories?
People developed trade unions for this main reason.
👉 What is to protect workers and improve working conditions?
One push factor for Irish immigrants was this major event.
👉 What is the potato famine?
Congress authorized the National Road mainly for this purpose.
👉 What is promoting westward settlement?
During the Industrial Revolution, production moved from these to factories.
👉 What are homes?
The Lowell System differed from the Rhode Island System in this way.
👉 What is weaving being done in factories using mechanized looms?
The Panic of 1837 had this effect on trade unions.
👉 What is decreased influence?
German immigrants influenced education by starting this.
👉 What are kindergartens?
The Erie Canal reduced costs to ship goods between these two regions.
👉 What are the Midwest and New York?
U.S. textile factories depended on a large supply of this raw material.
👉 What is cotton?
This inventor created muskets using interchangeable parts.
👉 Who is Eli Whitney?
German and Irish immigrants played a major role in organizing these groups.
👉 What are labor unions?
Irish immigrants changed politics mainly in these places.
👉 What are American cities?
Steamboats changed shipping by allowing goods to move this way more easily.
👉 What is upriver (against the current)?
Name one major change caused by the Industrial Revolution.
👉 What are new technologies / new transportation / people moving to cities?
These parts allowed broken pieces of factory-made goods to be replaced easily.
👉 What are interchangeable parts?
This political party developed in response to increased immigration.
👉 What is the Know-Nothing Party?
Both German and Irish immigrants were pushed by poverty and pulled by these opportunities.
👉 What are jobs, freedom, stability, and safety?
Railroads had this economic impact on trade.
👉 What is decreased shipping costs or increased trade access?
Population in the North shifted from rural areas to these places during the Industrial Revolution.
👉 What are cities?
Interchangeable parts helped develop this type of production system.
👉 What is mass production?
Labor unions formed as a response to conditions created by this movement.
👉 What is the Industrial Revolution?
Many immigrants found work building these transportation systems.
👉 What are canals, roads, railways, and mines?
Name one geographic feature important to northern transportation.
👉 What is the Hudson River, Lake Erie, or Lake Ontario?