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  • Where did most Irish find work once they immigrated to America?
    They worked on building the Erie Canal, railroad and in factories
  • What invention helped to make the cleaning of cotton faster and easier? Who invented it?
    cotton gin, Eli Whitney
  • The completion of what structure connected Buffalo, New York to the Hudson River?
    Erie canal
  • In what part of the United States did the Industrial Revolution begin?
    Northeast
  • What are textiles?
    cloth
  • What is the name of this invention and what impact did it have on life in the United States?
    Steel plow; made it easier to farm
  • What impact did this invention have on life in the United States?
    It made the transportation of goods and people more efficient
  • What were some of the effects of increased urbanization in the cities as a result of the Industrial Revolution?
    increased crime, overcrowding, poverty, pollution, spread of disease
  • What invention helped to make the harvesting of wheat easier?
    mechanical reaper
  • What impact did the steamboat have?
    It made it easier to travel upstream and improved the shipping of goods (more efficient)
  • What invention helped to improve communication over long distances?
    Telegraph
  • What is urbanization?
    The movement of people from the farms to the cities
  • Why did the Irish immigrate to America?
    To escape the potato famine and find new economic opportunities in America
  • What invention allowed for several threads to be spun at once thus making it more efficient to make cloth?
    spinning jenny
  • Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
    Eli Whitney
  • Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in the northeastern United States?
    because there were a lot of water resources and coal and iron deposits
  • An abundance of labor, the availability of capital, and new transportation systems all were factors that contributed to what event?
    the industrialization of the United States
  • How did the War of 1812 contribute to the industrialization of the United States?
    the war disrupted trading so Americans were forced to begin manufacturing their own goods
  • What individual developed the factory system and produced cloth from start to finish in one factory?
    Francis Cabbot Lowell
  • What is the difference between rural and urban?
    Rural refers to the farms and urban refers to the cities
  • What inventions helped to improve the area of agriculture? (3)
    steel plow, cotton gin, and mechanical reaper
  • Who were the typical workers in the factories?
    women and children
  • What is the name of this invention and what impact did it have on life in the United States?
    Mechanical reaper; made it easier to grow wheat
  • How did this invention impact life in the United States?
    It made the cleaning of cotton more efficient but also increased slavery
  • What is the name of the event during which the invention of machines changed the way that manufactured goods were produced?
    Industrial Revolution
  • What was a negative effect of the cotton gin?
    It increased slavery
  • What invention made steam power available for mechanical purposes?
    steam engine
  • Who invented the steel plow?
    John Deere
  • How did interchangeable parts impact industrialization?
    it allowed for the mass production of goods (made it faster, easier and cheaper)
  • What individual memorized the way that the British built their spinning machines and then immigrated to America and built a factory?
    Samuel Slater
  • Who invented the telegraph?
    Samuel F. B. Morse
  • What economic system helped the United States to industrialize?
    Free enterprise
  • What idea did Eli Whitney develop which allowed for the mass production of identical machine made parts?
    interchangeable parts
  • What economic system is characterized by competition, profit motive, private property and consumer choice?
    Free enterprise
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