Vocab
What is the name for the steamboat that could travel up the Hudson River with no trouble?
Bonus: Who built this boat? = +100pts
What is the Clermont
Bonus: Robert Fulton = +100pts
What is the name of the device that could send information over wires across great distances?
Bonus: What was the name of the system that people would use to communicate with this device? +100pts
What is a Telegraph
Bonus: Morse code = +100pts
Who was the blacksmith who created the steel plow design?
Bonus: What other invention will he go on to make? = +100pts
Bonus: What were the plows originally made of? = +100pts
Who was John Deere
Bonus: What is the tractor trailer and other farming equipment = +100pts
Bonus: Iron = +100pts
What became the main source of power as faster locomotives were built?
Bonus: What did the main source of power used to be? = +100pts
What is Coal
Bonus: Wood = +100pts
Name all of the inventions you learned in Mod 13 lesson 4
Bonus: Which invention was created by Isaac Singer? = +100pts
What is the reaper, steel plow, sewing machine, safety pin, and telegraph. +100pts after 1st response
Bonus: Sewing Machine = 100pts
What are parts of a machine that are exactly the same called?
Bonus: What was this invention originally created to duplicate? = +100pts
What are Interchangeable Parts
Bonus: Guns for war = +100pts
What is the name given to cloth items?
Bonus: What invention was created that helped production of this product? = +100pts
What are Textiles
Bonus: What is the water wheel/frame = +100pts
Who was the inventor who made improvements in the design of the sewing machine?
Bonus: Who was its original designer? = +1000pts
Who was Isaac Singer
Bonus: Elias Howe = +1000pts
True or False:
The tasks were too complex for unskilled workers to master was a problem many mill owners had in finding enough workers.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it, and what was the "other jobs" available? = +100pts
What is False. +600pts
Bonus: Workers frequently left the factories for other available jobs was a problem many mill owners had in finding enough workers. = +100pts
Bonus: Farmer = +100pts
What is a mill?
Bonus: Name a kind of mill we talked about during class, = +100pts
What are factories
Bonus: Textile Mills
What was the practice of hiring young unmarried women to work in mills called?
Bonus: Who originated this work arrangement? = +100pts
What is the Lowell System
Bonus: Francis Cabot Lowell = +100pts
What is the strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks called?
Bonus: Who originated this work arrangement? = +100pts
What is the Rhode Island System
Bonus: Samuel Slater = +100pts
Who was the developer of a new harvesting machine called a mechanical reaper?
Bonus: What was the purpose of this machine/ what does it do? = +300pts
Who was Cyrus McCormick
Bonus: Cutting down grain (wheat) at exponential speeds = +300pts
True or False:
The following developments helped bring about the Industrial Revolution: The decrease in the amount of overseas trade.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it = +100pts
What is False. +800pts
The following developments helped bring about the Industrial Revolution: The increase in the size of cities and populations.
Name the arrangements mill owners Francis Cabot and Samuel Slater used to generate profit and save money to employ their factories
Bonus: How much were children paid under Slater? = +200pts
What are the Rhode Island System = Samuel Slater/ The Lowell System = Francis Cabot Lowell
Bonus: Children made in a week what their parents made in a day = +200pts
What is the name for the groups of skilled workers that tried to improve members’ pay and working conditions?
Bonus: Which line of work was this group formed to help improve? +200pts
What is a Trade Union
Bonus: What is the mill/factory industry +200pts
What was the name of the efficient production of large numbers of identical goods?
Bonus: Which inventor/invention led to this development? = +200
What is Mass Production
Bonus: Eli Whitney/ Interchangeable Parts = +200pts
Who was the American inventor who tested the first full-sized commercial steamboat in the US?
What was the name of the boat? = +100pts
Who was Robert Fulton
Bonus: The Clermont = +100pts
True or False:
.The death of Samuel F. B. Morse in 1872 first led to the widespread use of the telegraph.
Bonus: If it's incorrect; fix it. Also, did the public believe in the telegraph when it was first introduced? = +100pts
What is False. +1000pts
Bonus: The Democratic National Convention in 1844 first led to the widespread use of the telegraph. = +100pts
Bonus: No they believed he was "making lucky guesses" = +100pts
Fill in the blank.
Samuel Slater allegedly stole the ideas of ____________ invention of the _______________and used it to create business in America for himself.
Bonus: Ms. Truehearts Middle name is ____________ = +1500pts
Richard Arkwright/water frame/wheel
Bonus: Jordon = +1500pts
What is the period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel called?
Bonus: Name an inventor + their invention from this time period. = +100pts per inventor/invention
What is the Transportation Revolution.
Bonus: Eli Whitney = interchangeable parts/cotton gin, Isaac Singer = sewing machine, Cyrus McCormick = mechanical reaper, John Deere = steel plow, Samuel F. B. Morse = telegraph, Walter Hunt = safety pin, Robert Fulton = steam boats, Peter cooper = steam trains, Samuel Slater = water frame/wheel
What is the period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production called?
Bonus: What did this term result in? = +200pts
What is the Industrial Revolution
Bonus: Mass Production = +200pts
Who was the American who built a small, steam-powered railroad locomotive with great power and speed?
Bonus: What was the name of the train? = +100pts
Who was Peter Cooper
Bonus: Tom Thumb = +100pts
I am the creator of the Safety Pin
- Walter Hunt
- Walter White
- John Stamos
- John White
Who was Walter Hunt
Name the presidents up to #11 in order.
G. Washington, J. Adams, T. Jefferson, J. Madison, J. Monroe, J. Q. Adams, A. Jackson, M. Van Buren, W. H. Harrison, J. Tyler, & J. K. Polk