8th STAAR Review: Industrial Revolution Era & Inventions

Inventor of the cotton gin making cotton more profitable and increasing the spread of slavery.

• Peter Cooper

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• John Deere

Inventor of the steamboat engine making traveling up river much easier.

• Robert Fulton

• Cyrus McCormick

• Henry Miller Shreve

• Peter Cooper

Stole blue prints of the textile and spinning mills turning yarn into thread for cloth weaving.

• Samuel Morse

• John Deere

• Frances Lowell

• Samuel Slater

Inventor of the locomotive steam engine

• John Deere

• Peter Cooper

• Robert Fulton

• Henry Miller Shreve

Inventor of the mechanical reaper used as a farming tool for cutting and gathering crops at harvest time.

• John Deere

• Samuel Morse

• Cyrus McCormick

• Eli Whitney

A patent on the idea of manufacturing identical components used in place of another; thereby, making repairs easier via mass production of parts.

• Eli Whitney

• John Deere

• Samuel Slater

• Samuel Morse

Hired girls between the ages of 15 to 25 years of age to work on his textile mills weaving clothes.

• Henry Miller Shreve

• Cyrus McCormick

• Samuel Slater

• Frances Lowell

Inventor of the telegraph and the code used for helping bring the nation together via electronic communications.

• John Deere

• Samuel Morse

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

Inventor of the double-decker steam boat engine proving his boats were perfect for steaming upriver against the current with a full cargo.

• Henry Miller Shreve

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick

• Peter Cooper

Inventor of the steel plow used to break up tough soil.

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• John Deere

• Cyrus McCormick