Northern Industrialization and Southern Cotton

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Samuel Slater

He was a British mechanic that moved to America and in 1791 invented the first American machine for spinning cotton. He disguised himself as a farmer.

How did immigration affect industrialism in the US?

Supplies factories with workers

What was the chief crop of the South before cotton?

Tabacco

Samuel Morse invented

Telegraph

The invention of what changed the communication in the US?

Telegraph

William Lloyd Garrison published a newspaper called what?

The Liberator

What else did Eli Whitney invent?

interchangeable parts

Cyrus McCormick invented

mechanical reaper

Isaac Singer invented

sewing machine

Industrial Revolution

A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing goods.

What mode of transportation was invented during the Industrial Revolution using the steam engine?

Boat

Harriet Tubman

Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

What country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

Great Britain

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

Examples of ways slaves could resist their. masters

Fake illnesses/injuries, steal tools, run away

What were most people before the Industrial revolution?

Farmers

Daily life in factories

Long work hours, low wages, hotm strict rules

As the economic importance of cotton increased, so did...

The number and value of slaves

What was the first industry to begin to use machines?

The textile industry

Children worked in factories

True

What war increased the US industrial capacity?

War of 1812

Underground Railroad

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

Eli Whitney invented

cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Examples of slave codes

could not meet in large numbers, could not own weapons, could not leave plantation without permission, illegal to teach enslaved people to read or write, master who killed a slave could not be tried for murder

Robert Fulton invented

steamboat

John Deere invented

steel plow

Richard Arkwright invented

water frame and spinning frame

Who worked in the Lowell Mills?

young women


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