Industrial Revolution

The cotton gin impacted slavery because

Technological developments such as steam power meant factories no longer had to be by ...?

Working conditions in the mills were

Period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel?

Groups that tried to improve working conditions

A long conveyor belt that moves the product down along a line.

Parts that are made identical. Introduced by Eli Whitney

Who invented the telegraph?

Different combinations of dots and dashes that represent each letter of the alphabet

Who introduced the idea of interchangeable parts?

Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks

A small but powerful locomotive built by Peter Cooper

Who was the designer of the new steel plow that could quickly break up sod?

What was the natural resource that became the main source of power in the Industrial Revolution

The primary product of New England during the Industrial Revolution was

Factory system of hiring young unmarried women to spin and weave in the same place.

Companies built factories closer to cities to

Refusing to work until employers meet demands

What part of the United States did the Industrial Revolution begin?

A form of transportation that was developed during the 1800s Transportation Revolution?

Textile manufacturers kept the costs of running a mill low by hiring and paying low wages to?

The Transportation Revolution created a boom because of

What cut off trade with Great Britain and allowed manufacturing in the United States to prosper

What happens to prices with mass production?

The McCormick reaper changed agriculture because

Carried passengers and gave farmers and merchants an inexpensive way to ship goods

The name of the first full-sized commercial steamboat?

A device that could send information over wires across great distances