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Industrial Revolution
Question | Answer |
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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 |