Industrial Revolution 1
This factory system was developed by Sam Slater and hired poor families and children
What is the Rhode Island System?
This term describes the use of machines to produce goods instead of making goods by hand
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Daily Double: How did Sam Slater get his ideas about factories to America
he memorized his plans
Why are rivers important to the growth of cities
they powered machines in the factories
This invention removed seeds from cotton faster by hand
What is the Cotton Gin
What effect did the growth of factories have on farming in New England
Minimal Farming and people wanted to work in factrories
How did the cotton boom affect slavery
Slavery increased because farmers needed more workers
what are two ways workers tried to improve conditions in the factories
what are strikes and forcing trade unions
this was the effect of the cotton boom in the south
people moving from the Upper South to the deep South
this was not a way slaves challenged the slave system in the South
what was bargaining for their freedom?
what is the cotton boom
what is the increase in cotton production
these were the causes of the cotton boom
what is the cotton gin and the demand of the European mills wanting more cotton
how did the cotton boom affect northern cities
what is the increased production in the northern US
Daily Triple: (you can earn 3 times the amount of points) These were not a job for slaves on plantations
what are fieldwork, domestic work, and childcare
This invention created by Elias Howe was and still is used to make clothes
what is the sewing machine
This was not a way slaves dealt with slavery
they would work for so many years and bought their freedom
what are slave codes
Samuel Morse created these two inventions as a way to communicate quickly over long distances
what is Morse code and the telegraph
This invention created by John Deere can cut through thick prairie sod and helped farmers plant crops
what is the steel-tipped plow
this term is defined as owners of large estates that grew cash crops and sold enslaved people for profit
what are plantation owners
Daily Double: What is one barrier to the industry (factories) in the south
what is the lack of money
Slave Population continued to grow even after the slave trade was outlawed by what
what was children who were born to enslaved people were added to the slave population
The family structure of enslaved African Americans helped them survive under slavery how?
What is establishing a neywork of family and friends
Daily Triple: The cotton boom affected what?
What is the population, economy, and slavery in the south
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