The Industrial Revolution

What is the Industrial Revolution?

• farming to factories
• from hands to machines
• rural to urban
• north = factories = industries

• people moved to plantations in the south

What did Henry Bessemer invent?

• steam engine

• cotton gin

• steel plow

• bessemer steel process

What was The Clermont?

• food
• steamboat
• steel plow 
• a canal

What was the mechanical reaper used for?

• transportation - to transport goods
• agriculture - to harvest grain

What did the cotton gin do?

• harvest grain
• transport supplies
• removed seeds from fibers

• pump water

What was the purpose of the steam engine?

• pump water to help vehicles run

• make thread

• connected NY to the Hudson River

• all of the above

How did interchangeable parts help the U.S. economy?

• mass production of goods
• less production of goods

__1.__ invented the __2.__ to make farming easier by breaking tough soil.

• 1. John Deere

  2. steel plow

• 1. Cyrus Mccormick

  2. steel plow

• 1. John Deere

  2. mechanical reaper

• 1. Robert Fulton

  2. mechanical reaper

________ _______ invented the telegraph.

• Samuel Morse
• James Watt

What did James Hargreaves invent that made thread to make clothes?

• spinning jenny
• cotton gin