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