Industrialization & Immigration

Who opened the first industrial mill in the U.S.?

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Henry Bessemer

• Robert Fulton

The Industrial Revolution encouraged ________________

• urbanization

• people to move to the rural area

• decreased need for slavery

• movement to the country

The cotton gin was invented by

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Slater

• Henry Bessemer

• Henry Ford

The cotton gin

• removed seeds from cotton efficiently

• did not remove seeds from cotton efficiently

• improved steel production

• made shipping goods cheaper and faster

Because of the cotton gin, Southern farmers wanted to grow more cotton and increased the need for _______ _______

• cotton gins

• slave labor

• volunteered help

• interchangeable parts

Nickname for cotton

• "King"

• "Necessity"

• "Joker"

• "Waste"

Interchangeable Parts were invented by

• Samuel Slater

• Henry Bessemer

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

Interchangeable parts allows for _________ _______________

• mass production

• faster shipping

• increased technology

• steel production

Interchangeable parts made replacing parts ____________

• difficult

• easier

• burdensome

• gruelsome

Bessemer Steel Process was created by

• William Kelly & Henry Bessemer

• Henry Bessemer only

• Robert Fulton

• Eli Whitney