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Industrial Revolution
Industry
Workers
Business
Inventions
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This is best defined as a period of rapid growth during which machines became essential to industry.
What is the Industrial Revolution
100
This was a more appealing fuel source than wood
What is coal?
100
This is an organization of workers with a specific skill or from a single factory who tried to improve pay and working conditions for members.
What is a trade union?
100
This person said "I am pesuaded that machinery moved by water (and) adapted to this business would greatly reduce the labor and facilitate (speed) the manufacture of this article."
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
This enabled people to send news quickly from coast to coast.
What is the telegraph?
200
This French observer of American life said that the contributions made by the Industrial Revolution to daily life made it more "convenient".
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
200
This caused America's farmers to plow up prairies and cut down trees to make farmland out of the Midwest.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
200
These companies changed the environment by blasting through rock to level the land, caused towns to spring up around it's stops, and helped the logging industry perform deforestation.
What is railroad?
200
During the War of 1812, this American patriot said "to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate (make) them ourselves."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This does NOT run on steam which shows that it is an early invention during the Industrial Revolution.
What is the water frame?
300
The shift to this kind of power meant factories no longer had to be built near streams, rivers or waterfalls. This was how technological developments during the Industrial Revolution enabled people to build factories almost anywhere.
What is steam?
300
The steel, coal and logging industries expansion were a direct result of this.
What is the Transportation Revolution?
300
This was Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families of workers and divinding factory work into simple tasks.
What is the Rhode Island system?
300
The North had more of these to provide power to textile mills is why the North had more than the South.
What is rivers?
300
This was well suited for river travel because it traveled well upstream.
What is the steamboat?
400
Keeping time became more important as people planned their routines around factory hours and railroad schedules led to the sale of thousands of inexpensive clocks throughout the 1800s. This event caused things like this to happen
What is the Industrial Revolution?
400
Thomas Gibbons' federal license had priority over Aaron Ogden's state license was a decision in this Supreme Court case.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
400
More mill workers were hired because Francis Cabot Lowell's power loom excited investors which helped this industry expand.
What is textile?
400
The growing demand for faster travel and more connections drove the pace for this construction in the US.
What is railroad?
400
This invention revolutionized the production of cloth by shifting the location of production from homes to textile mills.
What is the water frame?
500
This inventor came up with the idea of using interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
500
This Englishman invented a large spinning machine, called the water frame.
Who is Samuel Slater?
500
This person was one of the strongest voices in the union movement - founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association.
Who is Sarah Bagley?
500
This person developed Morse code.
Who is Alfred Lewis Vail?
500
To promote their products, these people let customers buy on credit, provide free repairs, and give public demonstrations.
Who are inventors?