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Ch. 11 Section 1
Question | Answer |
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What was the Industrial Revolution? | An era where factory machines replaced hand tools and manufacturing replaced farming as main form of work. |
Where were the first U.S. factories? | Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Southern Massachusetts. |
What did Lowell Mills manufacture? | Textile. |
What were interchangeable parts? | Parts that are exactly alike. |
How did interchangeable parts change factory work? | They sped up production. |
How did inventions change transportation and communication in the U.S.? | It improved. |
How did the telegraph change communication in the United States? | It brought more national unity. |
What inventions improved agriculture? | The steel plow, reaper, and the threshing machine. |
How did the steel plow improve agriculture? | It helped mid western farmers become a market fore Northeastern manufactured goods. |
What did Sam Slater invent? | Water powered textile Mills. |
What did Robert Fulton invent? | The Steamboat. |
What did Samuel Morse invent? | The Telegraph. |
Who worked in the Lowell Mills? | Farm girls who lived in company-owned boardinghouses. |