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Northern Life
7th grade SS Industrial Revolution
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? | The Industrial Revolution began in England in the 18th century. It started with James Watt and the steam engine. |
| How did the Industrial Revolution come to the US? | Samuel Slater opened the first industrial mill with a design heavily borrowed from the British model. |
| Why were most mills (early factories) built in New England? | the rivers provided a source of power, poor soil conditions made farming harder, and ships that could get easy access to the ocean to transport the goods |
| What technological breakthrough did Eli Whitney come up with? | Cotton Gin |
| How did the Cotton Gin help industry expand? | it helped strengthen slavery in the South. Although the cotton gin made cotton processing less labor-intensive, it helped planters earn greater profits, prompting them to grow larger crops, which in turn required more people. cotton’s rise meant a stea |
| Why did mill owners have a hard time finding workers? | They had difficulty finding enough people that wanted to do simple work all day long |
| What idea did Samuel Slater come up with to find workers? | He would hire entire families paying the children less. They would all work the same amount in a day and they would have housing provided. |
| How did Francis Cabot Lowell get workers? | He had humanitarian treatment of his workers. |
| What did the work day look like for factory workers? | Factory workers had to face long hours, poor working conditions, and job instability. |
| Why did trade unions develop? | a reaction against the oppressive practices of big business. Big Business saw labor as expendable and an infinite, there are only so many people and it is not easy to replace them, businesses didn't see it that way. |
| How did transportation increase business? | The cost and speed of transportation made it easier for the products to be sent to customers. For manufacturers lower cost transportation means wider distribution with increased opportunities for growth and increased competition. |
| What invention changed communication? | The printing press, because it was such an economically viable means of printing communication, led to the vast proliferation of written communication. |
| Identify 2 inventors that changed agricultural work and for each, what they invented. | 1. The Corn Picker by Edmund Quincey 2. The Cotton Gin by Eli Whitney |
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