Textile Industry
What does "textile" mean?
Fabric
What is it called when children work in factories or mines with little pay?
Child Labor
Where did people work after the Industrial Revolution began?
Factories
What was the first engine used for transportation?
Steam Engine
Where did workers make cloth before the Industrial Revolution?
In their homes
Did child workers make a lot of money from their jobs?
Nope- they got little to no pay
What is kept in factories?
Machines used to produce goods
What was the name of the first train created?
The Rocket
What was the first industry in the Industrial Revolution?
Textile Industry
What kind of conditions did child workers work in?
Unhealthy conditions around dangerous machines
What is it called when a large amount of a product is made at one time?
Mass Production
How did farmers use trains?
They shipped their crops on the trains.
What machine separated cottonseed from cotton fabric, so people wouldn't have to do it by hand?
Cotton Gin
How did the government put an end to child labor?
Passing the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938
What is an organization of workers created to protect the workers' rights?
Labor Union
How did trains help companies sell their goods?
They could sell them across the country and at a faster speed.