Chapter 11 Industrial Revolution

A new way of working and producing goods is known as

• Manifest Destiny

• Impressments

• Industrial Revolution

• Factory Revolution

This man brought the idea of the factory system over from England

• Samuel Slater

• DeWitt Clinton

• Eli Whitney

• Francis Archibald

Cotton mill that employed mostly young woman in harsh conditions in Massachusetts

• Slater Factory

• Cotton Mill of Boston

• Mill of Massachusetts

• Lowell Mills

The profits from inventions are protected for the inventor by something called a

• Corporate Agreement

• Patent

• Protection Clause

• Monopoly

Starting a factory required a lot of this, meaning money for investment

• assembly line

• natural resources

• capital

• invention

Why did many immigrants come to America during the Industrial Revolution

• to buy cheaper products

• to claim free land

• to escape religious persecution

• to take factory jobs

People moved from farms to factory towns, these became _______ areas

• urban

• rural

There was improvements in transportation that allowed people and goods to be shipped from east to west faster. Overland they could take this which stretched from Maryland to Illinois

• Hudson Rover

• Steamboat

• Erie Canal

• National Road

These artificial waterways were built to move goods and people faster

• canals

• rivers

• locomotives

• reapers

This was the most famous of the canals. Buffalo is located on it

• National Canal

• Canal of America

• Erie Canal

• Washington Canal