Inventors
The person who invented the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton
Samuel F.B. Morse improved this that led to the spread of communications. (hint: it's not Morse Code)
What is the telegraph?
The economy went from agriculture to this.
What is industry?
Work went from being done in homes and small shops to factories; people and the country made more goods (products) and profits. This grew as a result of those things.
What is the economy?
What are factories?
The person who invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney?
John Deere invented this to help with cultivating the ground for farming.
What is the steel plow?
During the Industrial Revolution, people began working in these.
What are factories?
The cotton gin allowed for slaves to remove the seeds from this much cotton per day.
What is 51 pounds?
Children could not go here because of all the long hours they had to work.
What is school?
The person who built the first cotton mill in 1790?
Who is Samuel Slater?
Elias how improved this machine which helped in the mass production of clothing.
What is the sewing machine?
People moved from rural areas (the country) to where?
What is urban areas? or What is cities?
Eli Whitney's cotton gin caused profits for cotton farmers to increase. As a result, cotton plantations grew and this caused another need to increase.
What is slave labor?
This could happen to children while working in factories.
What is get hurt? or What is get killed?
The person who built the first integrated textile mill?
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell? or Who is Francis Lowell?
Edmund Cartwright invented this which automated the weaving process that used a machine instead of manual labor.
What is the power loom?
Factories in the North used these as workers.
What is child labor? or What are children?
As a result of this form of transportation, the transportation of goods and people improved.
What is the steamboat?
Supervisors would do this to children if they made a mistake, took a break, or were talking.
What is get beaten?
The person who invented the steam engine
Who is James Watts?
This opened the access for shipping between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
When an industry wants a product. There was a _________ for cotton in the Northeast due to textile manufacturing.
What is demand?
Three things improved as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
What are the production of goods, transportation, and communications?
Factories lacked safety codes and were very _________ and _________.
What are crowded and dirty?