Industrial Revolution Vocab.

What made the cotton gin such a useful invention?

• It was invented by the great Eli Whitney.

• It removed seeds from cotton efficiently.

• It increased slave labor.

• It became the South's main source of income.

A place where people and machines join together to mass produce goods.

• Cartel
• Corporation
• Factory
• Urbanization

Mass production led to:

• Products being more superior in quality
• goods became less expensive
• laborers received higher wages
• industries moved to rural areas

This invention allowed people to quickly communicate over a long distance

• The spinning jenny

• The clement

• The Steam Engine

• The telegraph

What famous code was designed by a man named Samuel Morse?

• ala mode code

• horse code

• morse code

• code

This was a long slow process that changed the way goods were produced, from hand made to machine made.

• Factory System

• Industrial Revolution

• Paint Dry

• Capitalists

A government funded road that runs from Cumberland, Maryland. to Vandalia, Illinois through the Appalachian Mountains.

• Corduroy Road

• National Road

• Turnpike

• Pot Hole Road

What is a canal?

• toothache

• man-made waterway

• channel on the television

• a machine that cuts crops

What is a process in which parts are added as the assembly moves from station to station until the final product is complete?

• assembly line

• sewing machine

• mass production

• Industrial Revolution

Which machine stitches cloth together with tread?

• mechanical reaper

• telegraph machine

• sewing machine

• assembly line