Industrial Revoluton

Industrial Revoluton

Making things by hand, to making things by machine.

Mechanical Reaper

• A machine used to harvest wheat and separate the grain from the stock faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

• Invented by Cyrus McCormick

• This invention did the work of 28 men.

Steel Tipped Plow

• This invention easily cut through the hard packed sod of the prairies faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

• Invented by John Deere

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Telegraph

• A device that uses electric signals to transmit messages by a code over wires.

• This was invented by Samuel Morse who also invented Morse code.

• These wires that sent these messages normally ran along the railroad.

Sewing Machine

• This was invented by Elias Howe

• This invention made sewing clothes faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

• This invention put seamstress out of businesses and forced them to work in factories.

Cotton Gin

• This invention removed seed from cotton fiber faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

• This was invented by Eli Whitney

• This invention did the work of 50 slaves.

• This invention hurt slaves by increasing slavery in the South.

Multiple Choice

The Mechanical Reaper did the work of how many men?

• 30

• 28

• 50

Multiple Choice

Who invented the Mechanical Reaper?

• Elias Howe

• Eli Whitney

• Cyrus McCormick

Multiple Choice

Who invented the steel tipped plow?

• Elias Howe

• Eli Whitney

• John Deere

• Samuel Morse

Multiple Choice

This is a device that uses electrical signals to transmit messages over wires.

• Sewing machine

• Mechanical reaper

• Telegraph

• Cotton Gin

Multiple Choice

Who invented the telegraph?

• Samuel Morse

• Eli Whitney

• Elias Howe

• Cyrus McCormick

Multiple Choice

Who invented the sewing machine?

• Elias Howe

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• John Deere

Multiple Choice

The sewing machine put whom out of business?

• Cooks

• carpenters

• seamstresses

• Iron workers

Multiple Choice

Who invented the Cotton Gin?

• Samuel Morse

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick

• Eli Whitney

Multiple Choice

The cotton gin did the work of how many slaves?

• 40

• 30

• 20

• 50

Multiple Choice

What did the cotton gin do for slavery?

• It decreased slavery in the south.

• It increased slavery in the North

• It increased farming in the North

• It increased slavery in the South.

Interchangeable Parts

• Uniform pieces that can be made in large qualities to replace other identical pieces.

• Invented by Eli Whitney

Robert Fulton

• invented the steamboat which made river travel faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

• First steamboat was called the Clermont.

National Road

• First road built by the federal government with funds approved by Congress to connect the east to the west.

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Erie Canal

• Connected the Hudson River to Lake Erie

• Construction was overseen by Clinton Dewitt.

Mass Produced

The Manufacture of goods in large quantity using the same design so that all goods produced are the same.

Samuel Slater

He memorized machine designs in Britain and brought them to the U.S. to start the Industrial Revolution.

Francis Cabot Lowell

• He brought manufacturing steps together in one place to increase efficiency called the Lowell System.

• Lowell hired only young farm women in his factories.

Urbanization

the shift in population from rural to city.

Turnpike

a road that one must pay to use.

Canal

an artificial waterway.

Free Enterprise System

A system where individuals are free to produce and sell whatever they wish and buy and use

Multiple Choice

Who invented interchangeable parts?

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Samuel Morse

• Elias Howe

Multiple Choice

This is a shift in population from rural to city.

• Canal

• urbanization

• Free enterprise system

• turnpike

Multiple Choice

This invention by Robert Fulton made river travel faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

• Steam Engine

• Steamboat

• Sewing Machine

• Telegraph

Multiple Choice

What type of people would Francis Cabot Lowell hire?

• Farm men

• Young Boys

• Young Farm women

• Immigrants.

Multiple Choice

He memorized machine designs and brought the industrial revolution to the United States.

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel Slater

• Samuel Morse

• John Deere