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What did the Cotton Gin do?
It removed the seeds out of cotton plants at a quick rate.
a shift to the widespread use of machines and factories to produce goods
industrialization
Name two of the South's cash crops.
cotton, rice, sugar cane, wheat, sweet potatoes
Which statement is true? Industrialization led to the growth of cities. Growth of cities led to industrialization.
Industrialization led to the growth of cities.
This invention made long distance communication possible.
telegraph
Where was most of the cotton transported after it was cleaned?
Great Britain textile mills and Northern US textile mills
Name 2 new technologies during the time of industrialization
What is: steam engine, steamboat, railroads, spinning wheel, water wheel, loom, multiple effect evaporator
This crop was made vastly more profitable by the invention of the multiple-effect evaporator.
What is sugar cane
Name 2 kinds of transportation that changed during Industrialization
What is: steamboat and train
The first machines of the Industrial Revolution were powered by
water
Make a claim: Which area of change do you think had a more important effect on history - TRANSPORTATION or MANUFACTURE? Why?
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The north attracted more immigrants than the South because...
What is more jobs in mills and factories.
Factory owners hired these people because they could pay them less and control them easier
Who are Women and Children?
A factor that motivated people to settle in northeastern U.S. urban areas..
factory towns, jobs, high demand for low-skilled factory labor
What was one positive effect of the change from production by hand to production in factories with machines? What was one negative effect?
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This successfully connected the East coast to the West coast and helped achieve Manifest Destiny.
Transcontinental Railroad
Name the two positives of the steamboat that were improvements over the flatboat and canal boats.
Much faster than the canals and flatboats and could travel against the current. No one had to rent a horse to make a return trip
opened the first textile factory in the country
Samuel Slater
This means of transportation made Louisiana waterways its main highways.
What is a steamboat
Cotton was guaranteed financial success for this reason.
What is high demand from the textile industry?
This helped move goods and people faster along rivers. It increased factory production in the North and led to cash crops in the South.
steamboats
Used in railroads, steamboats, and factories to increase speed or production
What are steam engines
Which industry was the first to be transformed by the Industrial Revolution?
Textile
Why did the industrial revolution begin in the North?
rocky soil was not good for farming and they had plenty of rivers to power the factories
Why did one region of the country become more urbanized than other?
South was more agricultural, more farmland etc
North was more factory and industry based