Industrial Rev Review

Industrial Rev Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe advances in road construction:
Efforts to improve roads in some states, which were toll roads, were toll ways to get around the city.

Describe advances in water transportation: steam boat made to travel faster through powering paddles with steam.
Canals were built in 1800’s mostly in northeast. And, also connected farms with cities by water.

Why is the Eerie Canal important? Because, that was connected to Hudson River with lake eerie and funneled goods through NYC making it industrial center.



Describe advances in railroads:
Started in the 1820’s and moved faster than ships and could carry more weight.

Describe advances in industry including Samuel Slater:
1793, he sneaks out of England and builds first water powered textile mill.

1813, Francis Cabot Lowell opens fully operational mill where all the clothes were made and that was speeding everything up with labors divided, jobs required less work.



Describe the inventions of Sam Morse and Eli Whitney: 1837, Sam invented elected telegraph and Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 which pulled seeds from cotton & more profitable.

Why did the Cotton Gin expand slavery? It increased production and increase need for slavery in order to pick Cotton.

Bell ringer: they worked about 15 hours each day. The affects were probably tired, stressful, and trying their hardest to do their job.

Exit Ticket:
1st thing I learned was who invented the cotton gin
2nd was they improved to a lot of things like transportation
3nd was sam morse invented the electric telegraph.