Section 1
He invented interchangeable parts.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This kept the cost of running a mill low.
What is hiring children and paying low wages?
The locomotive credited with bringing "railroad fever" to the U.S.
What was the Tom Thumb?
Samuel Morse was at first unable to connect two locations together with wires. For this reason it took several years for this to go into operation.
What is the telegraph?
This team won the 2019 Super Bowl.
Who are the New Enlgand Patriots?
He invented the water frame.
Who is Richard Arkwright.
Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks.
What is the Rhode Island system?
Its ability to produce more energy made this fuel source more popular than wood.
What is coal?
Alfred Lewis Vail invented this communication system of dots and dashes to represent letters.
What is Morse Code?
He is the current governor of Florida.
Who is Ron DeSantis?
He brought textile machines to the U. S.
Who was Samuel Slater.
Women could become mill workers and earn better wages than in most jobs because of this system.
What is the Lowell system?
With increasing population advancing into the Midwest, the Transportation Revolution had this effect on the farming industry.
What is settlers plowing up prairies and cutting down trees to make farmland?
Factories no longer had to be built by water due to a shift to this power source.
What is steam?
She is the current Speaker of the House.
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
The North having more rivers and streams to provide power was the reason for this.
Why were more textile mills built in the north than the south.
She fought to bring the 10 hour work day to employees of private businesses.
Who is Sarah G. Bagley?
This Supreme Court case focused on interstate trade rights.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
He invented the mechanical reaper.
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
This was the name of the first full-sized commercial steamboat.
What is the Clermont?
He said, "to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves."
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Health problems such as chronic cough and an unsafe environment describes this.
What is working conditions at a mill?
This was the Supreme courts's decision in Gibbons v. Ogden.
What is Gibbons' federal license had priority over Ogdens' state license?
This French writer said that the contributions made by the Industrial Revolution made American life more convenient.
Who was Alexis de Tocqueville?
Isaac Singer's company was the world's largest maker of these.
What are sewing machines?