The Industrial Revolution Begins Eli Whitney and Lowell Mills Farm Life Transportation Transportation pt. 2
100
(Around the) 1800s
When was the shift from making tools/furnitre/cloth by hand to factories?
100
Boston
In 1814, Francis Cabot Lowell built a mill near ______, Massachusetts.
100
Wheat
What task used to take about 20 hours before the horse-drawn reaper? Harvesting one acre of _______.
100
Rivers and canals
Because roads were so poor at the time, ________ and ________ were the cheapest way to ship goods.
100
32; 10
The trip from New York City to Albany, New York took __ hours by steamboat and __ hours by train.
200
Britain
Where did the Industrial Revolution start (what country)?
200
Cotton and wool
After Lowell's mill, other ______ and _____ factories opened.
200
Thick soil
The steel plow helped farmers plow through ______ ____.
200
The National Road
What was the most heavily traveled road in the United States that we have talked about (in the 1800s)?
200
The paddlewheel
What was special about Robert Fulton's steam powered boat (which part of the boat)?
300
Textile industry
What industry was boosted during the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?
300
Textile
New England became the center of the growing _______ industry.
300
Cyrus McCormick
Who build the horse-drawn reaper?
300
Steam locomotive
The biggest change to transportation that we have talked about was the _____ ___________.
300
National Road
In 1811, the federal government began building the _________ _____.
400
Manufacturing and transportation
What were the two main things that changed during the Industrial Revolution?
400
Raw cotton, finished cloth
Lowell's mill was the first mill in the world to turn _____ _______ into _________ ______ all in one place.
400
Steel plow, 1837
What did John Deere invent? What year?
400
Cumberland, Maryland; Columbus, Ohio
By 1833, the National Road stretched from _________, Maryland to ________, Ohio.
400
Hudson River
The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie and the _______ ______.
500
Cotton-spinning mill
In 1790, the first ________ ______ in the United States opened.
500
Cotton-spinning machines and power looms.
What two machines did Lowell have in his mill?
500
Wheat
What did Cyrus McCormick's invention harvest?
500
Robert Fulton; 32
Whose steam powered boat made the first trip from New York City to Albany, New York? How many hours did this trip take?
500
9,000
How many miles of railroad track did the nation have by 1850?






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