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Industrial Revolution
Modern Transportation
Modern Transportation 2
Modern Transportation 3
Workers in Mines & Mills
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What is the industrial revolution?
It is a new system of organizing work that changed the way goods were produced and the way people lived.
100
In the early 1800's, 4 modern transportation's brought about changes in American life and the economy.
What are they?
100
What is a big man-made ditch filled with water that all kinds of boats, such as passenger boats, flatboats, and rafts can travel on?
Canals
100
What travels upriver against the current? Its fast, efficient, and fun.
Steamboats
100
4 Major problems of working in the mines and mills
1. worked long hours 2. Were poorly paid 3. Breathed poor quality air 4. Rarely lived past their 30's
200
What is a factory system?
The production of goods in factories.
200
A road that has crushed stones and clay as a base and asphalt or tar on top.
What is my name?
200
What reduced the time to travel over land? What can be used year-round and carry heavy loads?
Trains
200
I can carry lots of people, goods, and raw materials up and down rivers easily at 10 miles per hour.
Steamboat
300
Who invented the cotton gin and began making muskets with interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
300
This road made it easier for Americans to travel and to buy and sell goods. It improved trading in America.
What is my name?
300
What is the name of the first canal built?
Erie Canal
300
I built a successful steamboat called the North River that steamed up the Hudson River.
Robert Fulton
400
Who brought the Industrial revolution to America? He built a water-powered cotton-spinning machine.
Samuel Slater
400
The road carried mule-drawn carts with farm produce, big horse-drawn vans with cotton, and factory made products.
What road am I?
400
Who built a small steam-powered railroad locomotive, it was called Tom Thumb?
Peter Cooper
500
Which revolution would transform jobs, tools, and life in the United States?
Industrial
500
What transportation's allowed Americans to move to new areas, developed new cities, and made old cities grow larger.
Roads, canals, steamboats, and trains
500
When the Erie canal was built, what was the name of the largest city that developed?
New York City