Industrial Revolution
The country where the Industrial Revolution began.
What is England (Great Britain)
Natural resource used for steam engines
What is coal?
These waterways connected rivers leading to faster transportation and dropping transportation costs
What are canals?
Industrialization in the north led to an increase in people coming from other countries looking for jobs.
What is immigration?
What is "Capital" in the free enterprise system?
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What is money
He invented the Steel Plow
Who is John Deere?
The growth of cities is more commonly known as
What is urbanization?"
What is the "Clermont"?
The first successful commercial Steamboat
What is an Industrial Revolution
This crop failed, leading many from Ireland to come to America.
What is the potato?
Many of the workers in factories came from family farms in rural areas.
Who is Robert Fulton?
He invented the Clermont, the first successful commercial steamboat.
Textile mills mass produced this product
What is cloth?
Who is Cyrus McCormick
They got cheaper
What was the relationship between textile mills and Southern plantations in the US?
Textile mills relied on the cotton grown on the plantations to make cloth.
He brought textile mills to America by memorizing British factory plans
Who is Samuel Slater
The spread of factories in America created a demand for...
What is workers?
Besides the cotton gin, Eli Whitney created this idea that led to assembly lines
What is the interchangeable part?
The expansion of slavery.
This was the most famous man-made water way connecting the Great lakes to New York City.
What is the Erie Canal