Important People of the Industrial Revolution

Who created the cotton gin?

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• Phyllis Wheatley

The cotton gin made Eli Whitney rich and famous.

• True

• False

During the Industrial Revolution, the south was known for:

• Slavery

• Cotton

• Factories

• Steam Engine

In 1830 the United States produced about how many bales of cotton per year?

• 300,000

• 750,000

• 1,000,000

• 250,000

About how many pounds of cotton could a single slave separate in one day, before the cotton gin was created?

• 5 pounds

• 1.5 pounds

• 1 pound

• 2 pounds

Who was given the nickname "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" from Andrew Jackson?

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Robert Fulton

• George Washington

Why was Samuel Slater given the nickname "Slater the Traitor"?

• Because he was an apprentice, and no one liked him.

• Because he traded ideas with the British.

• Because he was learning a new trait.

• Because he stole the British's ideas of a textile mill and brought it to the US and designed his own.

What does textile mean?

• a type of cloth or woven fabric

• a type of text message

• a type of rock

• a type of tile

Which of these are true about Mill girls:

• they are older ladies watching over the children

• they are young girls working in textile mills

• they worked 12 hours a day/ 6 days a week

• their wages were almost 3 times what they could make as a personal servant

Samuel Slater designed the first textile mill. It had 72 spindles powered by 9 children using foot pedals.

• False

• True