Industrial Revolution

Revolutionized how cotton was harvested in the south by quickly separating seeds from the cotton fiber

• Interchangeable parts

• cotton gin

• steel plow

• mechanical reaper

Revolutionized manufacturing industry in the North by rapidly repairing and replacing broken machinery

• Interchangeable parts

• cotton gin

• steel plow

• mechanical reaper

Used compressed steam to power a motor or engine, made more power than a team of horses and could transport heavier loads of cargo

• steam boat

• canal

• steel plow

• mechanical reaper

Large factories manufactured cotton into

cloth built in the North near fast-moving rivers

• cotton gin

• canal

• steel plow

• Lowell textile mill

Who invented the cotton gin and and interchangeable parts?

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney

• Henry Bessemer

• Francis Lowell

A machine that could harvest four times as

much grain as people working by hand.

• Cotton gin

• canal

• steel plow

• mechanical reaper

This invention led to an increase in slave labor in the south.

• interchangeable parts

• cotton gin

• canals

• mechanical reaper

This invention revolutionized communication.

• Railroads

• Telegraph

• Steel plow

• canals

This innovation increased the efficiency of harvesting crops.

• canals

• cotton gin

• railroads

• mechanical reaper

The Lowell system provided young women from rural farm areas to work in

• A textile mill

• A cotton plantation

• A railroad station

• A telegraph station