The Industrial Revolution

Which of these correctly describes the Industrial Revolution?

• Handmade >> Machine Made

• Machine Made >> Handmade

• Handmade >> Skilled

• Unskilled >> Robot Revolution

The earliest mills and factories manufactured cotton into fabric - also known as

• Textiles

• Steam

• Agriculture

• Cash Crops

This invention allowed mills and factories to be built away from rivers

• Railroads

• Steam Engine

• Canals

• Cotton Gin

This invention sped up long-distance communication

• Telegraph

• Bessemer Process

• Canals

• Steam Engine

This invention increased the speed farmers could plant crops

• Steel Plow

• Canal

• Cotton Gin

• Steamboat

This transportation innovation connected Midwestern farms and Northeastern Cities

• Bessemer Process

• Canals

• Railroads

• The Reaper

This innovation made steel production cheaper & easier

• Bessemer Process

• Cotton Gin

• Interchangeable Parts

• Railroads

This invention led to an increase of slavery in the South

• Cotton Gin

• Railroads

• The Reaper

• Canals

Eli Whitney was responsible for creating which TWO inventions?

• Cotton Gin & Interchangeable Parts

• Steamboats & Canals

• Cotton Gin & Telegraph

• Telegraph & Reaper

The Telegraph was created by

• Samuel Morse

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• Thomas Edison