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Industrial Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eli Whitney | Invented the Cotton Gin |
| Interchangeable Parts | Invented by Eli Whitney for guns |
| Sam Slater | stole the idea for factories from england and gave it to the United States |
| Slaves | Picked much of the Cotton |
| Mass Prouduction | producing a bunch of the same thing quickly |
| Erie Canal | the nsme of the first canal built |
| Robert Fulton | he built the steamboat called the Clermont |
| Immigrants | worked with women and children in factories |
| Trains/Railroads | invention that pulled great loads and could go anywhere |
| cotton gin | invention that increased the need for slaves |
| Market economy | what our economy became during the Industrial Revolution instead of a farm economy |
| South | the region that grew most of the raw materials on plantations |
| North | region where factories were built |
| England | country where the Industrial Revolution started |
| benefit of railroads | trains could pull greater loads |
| benefit of railroads | trains could go practically anywhere |
| benefit of railroads | trains could be used year-round |
| disadvantage of early railroads | not safe, sometimes blew up |
| Sam Slater | brought key to factory looms which brought the Industrial Revolution to America |
| result of Industrial revolution | increase in demand for slavery |
| result of Industrial revolution | increase in immigration of people from Europe |
| result of Industrial revolution | women and children working in factories |
| result of Industrial revolution | more people buying goods and food from factories |
| caused by the Industrial revolution | growth of cities, the Transportation Revolution |
| unsafe, cramped, and dangerous | condition of factories & tenements(apartments)during the Industrial Revolution |
| cause of the Industrial Revolution | cotton gin and interchangeable parts by Eli Whitney |
| cause of the Industrial Revolution | War of 1812 forced Americans to make own goods |