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29 Cards in this Set
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Where did the Industrial Revolution Begin? |
Started with the Texas industry in Great Britain and moved around the world |
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Industrial Revolution |
period in time in which machines were used for mass manufacturing and production |
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How did the Industrial Revolution come to the U.S.? |
Samuel Slater brings machine designs to the U.S. and helps build the first factory in the U.S. |
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How did Northern Manufacturing increase? |
money and rivers |
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What did Eli Whitney invent? |
Interchangeable parts |
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Technology |
tools used to produce items or to do the work |
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Samuel Slater |
British mechanic who brings the industrial revolution to the U.S. |
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Interchangeable Parts |
identical machine parts that made it easier to fix or replace a broken part |
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Mass Production |
produce large quantities of goods |
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Pick 3 reasons why industrial revolution was different in the U.S. |
More land for farming;Prices increase on goods because not a lot of skilled workers;Not a lot of money for investing |
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Pick 2 reasons why industrial revolution changed in the U.S. |
War of 1812;U.S gov't realizes U.S. relies on foreign countries to much for goods |
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Pick 3 reasons how the Industrial Revolution changed the lives of the workers. |
Hire entire families;Child Labor;Company housing |
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How was the Lowell System different from the Rhode Island System? |
Spun thread and weave cloth in same factory; cleaner factories and communities |
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How was the Rhode Island System different from the Lowell System? |
Factories located in multiple places; dirtier |
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Lowell System |
water powered textile mill run by young unmarried women |
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Rhode Island System |
Factory system that hired entire families and made factory work simple |
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Pick labor reforms that came from the Industrial Revolution. |
Trade Unions; 10 hour work days; minimum wage |
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Trade Unions |
group that tries to improve pay and working conditions for factory workers |
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Why was the use of coal important for fuel? |
less fuel for more power |
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Why was the Clermont important? |
more goods quicker and cheaper |
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Why were railroads important? |
Connect major cities in the East |
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Why was the telegraph important? |
gain information faster |
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Why was steam power for factories important? |
factories can be made anywhere |
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Why was improved farm equipment important? |
increase crops= increase food supply |
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Transportation Revolution |
period of rapid growth in speed and convenience of travel and trade because of new transportation methods |
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Clermont |
1st commercial steamboat |
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Telegraph |
device that could send information over wires quicker |
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Morse Code |
combination of dots and dashes to form messages |
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How did new inventions change everyday life? |
Made life easier; mass production of cheaper household items |
