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Ch. 12 and 13
Industrial Revolution - North and South
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Industry that hired children to help keep their prices down | Textile mills |
| This period brought great changes through increased use of machines | Industrial Revolution |
| British mechanic brought textile machine designs to the US | Sam Slater |
| This brought greater speed and convenience through travel | Transportation Revolution |
| This invention allowed farmers to till the soil more easily and faster | steel plow |
| The region that had the most manufacturing | New England |
| This brought worker and machines together in one central location | Lowell system |
| This was used for power in the first factories | water |
| This allowed pieces of a machine to be replaced if they broke | interchangeable parts |
| invented the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| founded a labor union in the textile mills | Sarah G. Bagley |
| The process allowed the prices of goods to drop because more could be made in less time | mass production |
| first industry to be mechanized | textiles |
| developed the steamboat in the US | Robert Fulton |
| invented the machine that sped up communication using dots and dashes across wires | Samuel F.B. Morse |
| designed the steel plow | John Deere |
| developed interchangeable, leading to mass production | Eli Whitney |
| one of the few examples of industrial growth in the South by 1848 | Tredegar Iron Works |
| The most violent slave revolt in the US occurred in 1831 and is known as | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| The majority of slaves worked here | fields |
| The primary economic activity in the South | agriculture |
| This invention allowed farmers to clean cotton more quickly | cotton gin |
| Invented the cotton gin | Eli Whitney |
| As the demand for cotton increased, the demand for these workers also increased. | slaves |
| This replaced wood as an energy source for making steam in locomotives | coal |
| Laws that tried to control slaves by limiting their education and movement. | slave codes |