Inventions
This invention by Eli Whitney made cleaning cotton faster.
What is the cotton gin?
These grew rapidly due to factory jobs.
What are cities?
This phrase described cotton’s importance to the Southern economy.
What is "King Cotton"?
This invention allowed boats to travel upstream.
What is the steamboat?
He invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
These identical components made mass production easier.
What are interchangeable parts?
Young women worked in these New England textile mills.
What are Lowell Mills?
Cotton farming greatly increased this practice in the South.
What is slavery?
These connected cities and moved goods quickly across land.
What are railroads?
He brought British textile technology to America.
Who is Samuel Slater?
This invention by James Hargreaves allowed spinning many threads at once.
What is the spinning jenny?
These were formed to protect worker rights and push for better conditions.
What are labor unions?
Most cotton was exported to this region.
What is Europe (or Great Britain)?
A man-made waterway used for shipping goods.
What is a canal?
He created the Lowell System of factory labor.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
This invention powered early factories using flowing water.
What is the water frame?
Working conditions were often dangerous and these were very long.
What are work hours?
Cotton grew well in this region of the United States.
What is the Deep South?
This canal linked the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
He promoted the American System to boost industry.
Who is Henry Clay?
A powerful new energy source that replaced water in factories.
What is the steam engine?
A system where people work in one location using machines.
What is the factory system?
This crop dominated the Southern economy before the Civil War.
What is cotton?
Early roads were often made from this material.
What is gravel or stone (macadam roads)?
He improved the steam engine, making it practical for factories.
Who is James Watt?