Northern Industrialization and Southern Cotton
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
