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| What KEY TERM means "...the social and economic changes that occurred when manufacturing shifted from people's homes and shops to factories..."? | Industrial Revolution |
| What KEY TERM means "...unprocessed natural products used in manufacturing..."? | Raw Materials |
| How did British industry influence American industrialization? | Americans copied and modified British machines, which performed tasks previously done by hand. |
| What changes occured in transportation during in the 1800s? | Transportation changes include hard-surfaced roads, canal networks, clipper ships, steamboats and railroads. |
| What made New England the center of textile industries? | New England had a strong sea tradeand a good water supply for power. Its poor soil drove many farmers to the city to look for work. |
| How did the inventions of the Industrial Revolution change the way people lived, worked and traveled? | Because of inventions, people began to live in cities, work in factories, and travel quickly and inexpensively. |
| How was the settlement of the west spurred by the expansion of railroad and canal networks? | The quicker, cheaper transportation stimulated commerce, which then increased settlement of the West. |
| Who is given credit for creating the first succesful steamboat? | Robert Fulton --The Clermont |
| Who is given credit for creating the "cotton gin"? | Eli Whitney |
| Who is given credit for creating the telegraph? | Samuel Morse |
| Who is known as the father of the Industrial Revolution? | Samuel Slater |
| Who is given credit for the idea of "interchangeable parts"? | Eli Whitney |
| Who started the first factory system? | Francis Cabot Lowell - Lowell, Massachusetts |
| What is a turnpike? | A hard surfaced road |
| Which kinds of people worked in factories | Young women, immigrants, people who came from t he farms. |
| What determined where a factory would be built? | Had to be near a water (power) source, had to be near raw materials, had to be near a transportation system. |
| How did poor farm land affect the Industrial Revolution? | Because of poor land, people left the farms to work in factories. |
| Facts about the Lowell Mills | Women worked for an average of 12 hours, they worked six days a week, men held all supervisory positions, men received higher pay, workers could be fined for being late, some mills had worker take care of more than one machine, could be fined for working slow, could be fined for challenging a supervisors authority. |
