The First Industrial Revolution

Which is the best definition for the Cotton Gin?

• a machine that separates the seeds, hulls, and foreign material from cotton.

• carries the cotton to the spinning mills

• fuels machines that turn raw cotton into textiles

• Carts and draws wool into slivers and looms them into textiles

Define the Lowell System.

• System that hired young unmarried women to spin thread and weave cloth

• Parts of a machine that are identical

• Efficient production of large numbers of identical good

• System that hired families and divided the factory work into simple tasks

Considered the "Father" of the American Industrial revolution with the introduction of the spinning mill

• Samuel Slater

• Eli Whitney

• Priam Huntington

• Josiah Gresham

The transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

• Industrial Revolution

• Technology

• Innovation

• Agricultural Revolution

Suffering several serious gunshot wounds in the battle of Fort Wagner, kept the Flag of the Union held high as he crawled up the hill to the walls of the fort, he planted the flag in the sand at the base of the fort

• Sergeant Harvey Carney

• Abraham Galloway

• George McJunkin

• Charles Henry Turner

Former slave, Union spy and military recruiter, militant abolitionist, advocate for Black suffrage, North Carolina Republican Party organizer and State Senator

• Abraham Galloway

• Robert Smalls

• Colonel Charles Young

• Sergeant Harvey Carney

A teacher and Civil War nurse, achieved many firsts in a lifetime of overcoming adversity and was the only African American woman to write about her experiences in the American Civil War

• Susie King Taylor

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Freeman

• Mary Fields

Successfully sued for their freedom in Massachusetts which allowed other Northern States to begin the process of abolishing Slavery.

• Elizabeth Freeman

• Abraham Calloway

• Susie King Taylor

• Nat Love

What is depicted in the image which began the Industrial Revolution

• Water Powered Textile Mill

• Coal Mill

• Cotton Gin Factory

• Water Powered Factory

• Cotton Gin

• Water Wheel

• Spinning Mill

• Textile