Industrial Revolution
The main industry in the North Was...
Acceptable answers :
Factories
Textiles
Fabric
Clothing
What is a steam engine
A machine that uses water and converts it to steam to help make things move
Mass Production
To produce more of something in a shorter time
The South needed a new cash crop during the 1800's what was it?
Cotton
The Lousianna Purchase
The Main industry in the South was
Acceptable answers:
Agriculture
Farming
Cotton
What did the cotton gin do
Help make more clean cotton in less time than the slaves
Bourgeoisie are the
Factories owners or the upper class
Who was Eli Whitney
He invented the Cotton Gin
How much did we buy the Lousianna purchase for
$15 million
Who worked in the factories?
Women and Children
What was the telegraph?
a machine that sent messages in morse code
Proletariat are
The factory workers and the lower class
How did the cotton gin help during the industrial revolution
It helped produce more clean cotton to send to the facotories
Made farmers more money bc they produced more cotton faster
Created jobs for factories b/c they were getting more cotton to make fabric
Who were the explorers that Thomas Jefferson sent to explore the new land we purchased
Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke
What was it like to work in a factory?
They had unsafe conditions
What are interchangable parts
parts that can be used on different or multiple machines
What is a mill
a place where raw materials are sent to be turned into something
Slave were
People that were captured from Africa sent to the "new world" to work for Free for the white man.
Treated like property not people
Mainly in the south
Who was the woman that Lewis and Clark had help them on the expedition
Sacagawea
The steam engine
Steam Train
Steam boat
Telegraph
Cotton Gin
Who invented the morse code and where was he from?
Samuel Morse from Boston
Name an example of a raw material during the industrial revolution
wood logs
cotton
Name 3 states in the south during the 1800's
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Maryland
Additional waterways for transportation of people and goods
More land for newcomers
New discoveries of plants and animals
Accquried the Port of New Orleans