Industrial Revolution Basics
The Industrial Revolution in the U.S. began in this early century.
What is the 19th century (1800s)?
Eli Whitney invented this machine in 1793 to clean cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Erie Canal?
Factory workers formed these groups to fight for better wages and conditions.
What are labor unions?
Crowded, unsanitary city housing was called this.
What are tenements?
Before industrialization, most Americans lived in these areas and worked as these.
What are rural areas and farmers?
This machine, used in textile mills, spun thread much faster than by hand.
What is the spinning jenny?
This invention allowed boats to travel upstream against the current.
What is the steamboat?
These were common workplace problems during industrialization (name two).
What are long hours, low pay, unsafe conditions (any two)?
Industrialization caused this type of pollution to increase in cities.
What is air and water pollution?
Factories used this type of production to make goods in large quantities.
What is mass production?
The power _______ was another invention that allowed weaving of cloth on a large scale.
What is the power loom?
This invention by Samuel Morse allowed messages to travel almost instantly.
What is the telegraph?
Many factory workers were immigrants from these two European regions.
What are Ireland and Germany?
Cholera was spread how?
What is dirty water?
These two energy sources powered early factories.
What are water power and steam power?
This inventor is famous for creating the first practical light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This was the main transportation system built to connect the East and West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This term describes the use of children in factories and mines.
What is child labor?
Diseases like cholera and typhus spread rapidly in cities during industrialization because of these two major problems in tenements.
What are poor sanitation and overcrowding?
This term describes when people move from rural to urban areas.
What is urbanization?
This inventor developed the first successful telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This nickname was given to the first American railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad (nickname: “The Iron Horse”)?
What is lice?
The Industrial Revolution caused a major shift from an agricultural economy to this type of economy.
What is an industrial economy?